Preface, Acknowledgements, 1. Psychiatric nursing: illusion and reality, 2. The whole truth?, 3. Carl’s world, 4. Flowers in their mouths, 5. Nursing and postmodernity: a logical alliance?, 6. The socialisation of ideas in psychiatric nursing, 7. Ordinary miseries: extraordinary remedies, 8. Rational emotive therapy, 9. 1999: a nursing odyssey?, 10. The search for conclusions, References, Index