Psychology in medicine
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Psychology in medicine
Butterworth-Heinemann, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index
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Description
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.
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