Psychology in Medicine

Year 1992

ISBN No. 9780750604963

No.of pages 320

Subject Psychology, Knowledge and Society

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The principles of psychology are also This book provides a broad-based summary of the important areas of psychology. Relevant aspects of basic psychology are presented and their applications in general clinical practice demonstrated in areas such as doctor-patient communication, ageing and stress. The principles of psychology are also applied to specific problems such as alcohol consumption, depression and schizophrenia

Table of contents

Basic processes; perception and sensation; learning; memory; cognition; language; intelligence; personality; emotion; child development; Freud and emotional development; attitudes; personal construct theory; group processes; general applications to medicine; doctor-patient communication; diagnosis; ageing; death, dying and bereavement; sleep; pain; drugs, placebos and addiction; stress, anxiety and psychosomatics; neuropsychology; specific applications to medicine; smoking; alcohol; eating and obesity; models of mental illness; neurosis; depression; schizophrenia; mental subnormality; further reading.