
Introduction to Psychology for Medical Students
- 222 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
Introduction to Psychology for Medical Students
About this book
Introduction to Psychology for Medical Students deals with general psychology aimed for medical undergraduate students. The book discusses psychology and its relevance to medicine, particularly on the relation of the mind and the treatment of physical diseases. The authors explain perceiving and imagining; and how perception is dependent on past experience or learning, and the effects of motivation and of mood on perception. The authors also discuss abstract and concrete thinking, emotional use of words, unconscious thinking, creative thinking, learning, and remembering. The unconscious process of forgetting of unwelcome memories is repression, while consciously trying to forget them is suppression. The authors also explain normal conflict, frustration, and reaction to stress including the physical aspects of emotions causing increases in blood pressure, in adrenaline flow, or in blood glucose level. The authors also discuss the hypnotic states, individual susceptibility, the induction of hypnotic states, and their clinical applications. This book is intended for medical undergraduate students, as well as to general readers interested in psychology and human behavior.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Introduction to Psychology for Medical Students
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE
- Chapter 1. Scientific Psychology and its Relevance to Medicine
- Chapter 2. Perceiving and Imagining
- Chapter 3. Thinking and Language
- Chapter 4. Learning and Remembering
- Chapter 5. Intelligence
- Chapter 6. Physiological Aspects of Perception, Speech and Memory
- Chapter 7. Motivation
- Chapter 8. Normal Conflict, Frustration and Reaction to Stress
- Chapter 9. Personality Traits, Types and Dimensions
- Chapter 10. Physical Aspects of Emotions
- Chapter 11. Physique, Temperament and Psychosomatic Relationships
- Chapter 12. Orientation and Disorientation
- Chapter 13. Sleep
- Chapter 14. The Experience of Pain
- Chapter 15. Hypnotic States
- Chapter 16. The Development of Skills in the First Three Years of Life
- Chapter 17. Childhood
- Chapter 18. Adolescence, Maturity and Old Age
- Chapter 19. Psychological Reactions to Illness and Treatment
- Chapter 20. Interpersonal Relationships in the Hospital
- Glossary of Technical Terms
- Index