title: The psychotherapy of Hildegard Peplau in the treatment of people with serious mental illness.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The use of Peplau's interpersonal nursing theory with people suffering from serious mental disorder.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe Peplau's theory and its application using a case study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Author's own clinical work.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Peplau's theory can be used to help patients resolve symptoms by guiding them through the steps of observation, description, analysis, formulation, validation, testing, integration, utilization.
authors.affiliation: Middletown Psychiatric Center, NY, USA.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Thelander
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009736:Nursing Process; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*