Psychology in medicine

Abstract

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.