Send us a text What if the most powerful tool in mental health isn’t a pill or a protocol, but disciplined curiosity? We sit down with Marcus Evans—psychoanalyst, longtime psychiatric nurse, and trainer at the Tavistock—to explore how a psychoanalytic lens can make care more humane for people living with psychosis, borderline states, and severe distress. Marcus takes us from old asylum wards to modern outpatient clinics, showing how labels help as rough maps but fail as destinies. He explain...
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Send us a text What if the most powerful tool in mental health isn’t a pill or a protocol, but disciplined curiosity? We sit down with Marcus Evans—psychoanalyst, longtime psychiatric nurse, and trainer at the Tavistock—to explore how a psychoanalytic lens can make care more humane for people living with psychosis, borderline states, and severe distress. Marcus takes us from old asylum wards to modern outpatient clinics, showing how labels help as rough maps but fail as destinies. He explain...
What Makes a Nurse Therapist Unique? Finding Your Voice in Mental Healthcare with Dr Howard Butcher
Peplau's Ghost
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4 months ago
What Makes a Nurse Therapist Unique? Finding Your Voice in Mental Healthcare with Dr Howard Butcher
Send us a text When Dr. Howard Butcher discovered a brochure about psychiatric nursing while studying biology, it changed the trajectory of his life. "I didn't know nurses could be therapists," he recalls, setting him on a path that would lead to becoming both a practicing nurse therapist and an influential nursing theory scholar. The pull between theory and practice forms the heart of this compelling conversation. Dr. Butcher articulates why nursing theory isn't just academic posturing—it's...
Peplau's Ghost
Send us a text What if the most powerful tool in mental health isn’t a pill or a protocol, but disciplined curiosity? We sit down with Marcus Evans—psychoanalyst, longtime psychiatric nurse, and trainer at the Tavistock—to explore how a psychoanalytic lens can make care more humane for people living with psychosis, borderline states, and severe distress. Marcus takes us from old asylum wards to modern outpatient clinics, showing how labels help as rough maps but fail as destinies. He explain...
