An educational-therapeutic approach to patient care has been demonstrated in an affiliate psychiatric nursing program in a state hospital.The rewards of this integrated interpersonal relationship approach are two-fold:1. For the student nurse—a more meaningful learning process which has resulted in better understanding of the psychiatric patient; and2. For the patient—more "tender, loving care," which after all is the basic ingredient so necessary to any psychotherapeutic process leading to improvement or recovery of the mentally ill.Abstract Teaser