The Re-Adjustment of the Hospital In-Patient. How the Nurse Can Help

and recovery, less of asylum. To-day, psychological medicine has a place in social service which few of us could have imagined possible twenty-five years ago; the question of reconditioning the patient, so that after recovery and discharge there shall be no recurrence of the trouble, is becoming increasingly vital as a nursing problem. It is a most heartening development. Let us seek an analogy from the recent war. It will be remembered that long before the cessation of hostilities, wise men were giving thought to the building of the post-war world. It was not enough, they said, that peace should be merely an uneasy breathing space between two wars; they wanted to find a way to create a world of smiling, happy childhood, of men and women who could live and work together in friendliness and security; a state of society in which war could never happen again. So with the mentally ill. What is the lasting