title: Mental Health Nursing H Wright and M Giddey editors Mental Health Nursing Chapman & Hall 540pp £19.95 0-412-41210-1.
abstract: Even in comparatively recent times, there was a paucity of texts for students of mental health nursing and a similar lack for practitioners keen to keep updated or those returning after career breaks. There have been attempts at a 'cover-all' textbook, but perhaps none so accomplished as this. How the times have changed since the alternatives were simply a shufti at the Sainsbury or a cram with the Koshy, as the state examination loomed larger.
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