Medical psychology. Petrova N.

The textbook highlights the issues of medical psychology necessary for the formation of professional competencies of a doctor, the relevant theoretical and applied problems of modern medical psychology are given, the clinical and psychological characteristics of personality disorders and mental processes in various diseases are analyzed, the basic psychological approaches to their therapy are analyzed, and the basic psychological approaches are analyzed. The patterns of the formation of subjective concepts of the disease and the model of the interaction of the doctor and the patient were discussed. The application contains the most frequently used clinical and psychological diagnostic methods and recommendations for their interpretation.

The publication is intended for specialty students (discipline “Psychiatry, Medical Psychology”) and residency (specialty “Psychiatry”), as well as specialists in the field medical psychology, can be used in the framework of continuous vocational education.