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Sibling rivalry in nursing and the role of nurse psychotherapist
1Invicta Community Care, NHS Trust, Kent, England.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
|March 17, 1999
Abstract
Topic:
The burgeoning role of the analytically prepared nurse psychotherapist in Great Britain.
Purpose:
To describe the struggles of nurses in this role and ways this struggle might be lessened.
Source:
Observations of the author, an analytically prepared nurse psychotherapist-in-training in Great Britain.
Conclusions:
The role of the nurse psychotherapist with psychoanalytic training is in its infancy in Great Britain. Barriers to the development are both external, from outside the nursing profession, and internal, in the form of sibling rivalry or envy from less prepared nurses. Increased communication among nurses is encouraged so that a shared understanding and mutual respect may result.