Stephen Tilley is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

• Section 1: Background and stance on the problem of knowledge in the field. 1. Introduction.Section 2: Looking across the field: case studies of institutionalisation of knowledge of PMHN.2. The Institute of Psychiatry: Nursing within the Health Services Research Department.3. Fragile Tradition: Institutionalisation of knowledge of psychiatric and mental health nursing in the Department of Nursing Studies, The University of Edinburgh.4. Nursing mental health at the Tavistock.5. Mental health nursing: Principles in practice.6. Shaping pre-registration mental health nursing education through user and carer involvement in curriculum design and delivery.7. Involving individuals in mental health nursing education.8. Models of mental health nursing education.Section 3: An analytic and critical commentary on the accounts in Section 2.9. Reflective commentaries by the contributors to Section 2: each sees the field from within the field.10. International perspectives on the state of knowledge of PMHN in Britain.11. A sociologist looks at the field of knowledge.12. Conclusion: From the towers to the piazza

'This book provides some very pertinent case material and, unlike some of the international commentators, I also found that it contained some highly relevant critical insights'Journal of Clinical Nursing

Stephen Tilley is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

• Section 1: Background and stance on the problem of knowledge in the field. 1. Introduction.Section 2: Looking across the field: case studies of institutionalisation of knowledge of PMHN.2. The Institute of Psychiatry: Nursing within the Health Services Research Department.3. Fragile Tradition: Institutionalisation of knowledge of psychiatric and mental health nursing in the Department of Nursing Studies, The University of Edinburgh.4. Nursing mental health at the Tavistock.5. Mental health nursing: Principles in practice.6. Shaping pre-registration mental health nursing education through user and carer involvement in curriculum design and delivery.7. Involving individuals in mental health nursing education.8. Models of mental health nursing education.Section 3: An analytic and critical commentary on the accounts in Section 2.9. Reflective commentaries by the contributors to Section 2: each sees the field from within the field.10. International perspectives on the state of knowledge of PMHN in Britain.11. A sociologist looks at the field of knowledge.12. Conclusion: From the towers to the piazza

'This book provides some very pertinent case material and, unlike some of the international commentators, I also found that it contained some highly relevant critical insights'Journal of Clinical Nursing

Stephen Tilley is a Senior Lecturer in Nursing Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

• Section 1: Background and stance on the problem of knowledge in the field. 1. Introduction.Section 2: Looking across the field: case studies of institutionalisation of knowledge of PMHN.2. The Institute of Psychiatry: Nursing within the Health Services Research Department.3. Fragile Tradition: Institutionalisation of knowledge of psychiatric and mental health nursing in the Department of Nursing Studies, The University of Edinburgh.4. Nursing mental health at the Tavistock.5. Mental health nursing: Principles in practice.6. Shaping pre-registration mental health nursing education through user and carer involvement in curriculum design and delivery.7. Involving individuals in mental health nursing education.8. Models of mental health nursing education.Section 3: An analytic and critical commentary on the accounts in Section 2.9. Reflective commentaries by the contributors to Section 2: each sees the field from within the field.10. International perspectives on the state of knowledge of PMHN in Britain.11. A sociologist looks at the field of knowledge.12. Conclusion: From the towers to the piazza

'This book provides some very pertinent case material and, unlike some of the international commentators, I also found that it contained some highly relevant critical insights'Journal of Clinical Nursing