title: [Psychiatric nursing yesterday and today].
abstract: Psychiatry, as we know it today, and chiefly the role the nurse plays inside the different psychiatric services on the territory, are a result of the psychiatry cultural growth, during the centuries, among many contradictions. Psychiatric support and the nurse's image have always been bound, till recently, to the mental hospital as an institution. After the 180/78 law, the responsibility of the psychiatric support has passed to the territory and, with this change, the way of conceiving the psychiatry and the supporting approach to the patient have changed too. The professional man, who wants to offer a scientific support and to raise the quality of his service, has to carry out a scientific methodology using a theoric model as landmark and suitable operating tools.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: De Luca
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence