title: Early precursors of psychiatric nursing, 1838-1907.
abstract: Care of the insane during the 17th and 18th centuries was undeniably grim until the advent of moral therapy. Wasserbauer and Brodie explore the humanistic approach that laid the groundwork for early psychiatric nursing.
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Wasserbauer
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brodie
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000266:history*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States