Table of Contents

Therapeutic nursing - theory, issues and practice; reflection and the evaluation of experience - prerequisites for therapeutic practice?; the presentation of the nurse - a neglected dimension of therapeutic nurse-patient interaction; ordinariness in nursing as therapy; facilitating therapeutic nursing and independent practice; quality discourse and nursing as therapy; tailoring research for therapeutic-nursing practice; an exploration of touch and its use in nursing; an evaluation of humanism as a philosophy for nursing practice within an era of rational-scientific health care; mental health; therapeutic nursing in acute care; the political dimension of nursing as therapy; taking up the challenge - the future for therapeutic nursing.