Psychology 2nd edition, corrected. Ostrovskaya I.V.

The textbook is designed to form psychological knowledge and skills necessary for students, necessary for both professional activities and for the development of their own personality. Psychological knowledge and skills are needed in order to help the patient change his behavior by activating health focus. Particular attention is paid to the study of cognitive processes and mental properties, personality states, as well as personality problems in social psychology, the problems of the social psychology of groups, and the psychology of communication. Separately considered issues of business communication, the problem of aggression, psychological care of the dying. Training is carried out through lectures, seminars, discussions, practical classes, psychological analysis of specific professional situations, playing roles, business games, trainings, extracurricular independent work, and preparing abstracts. At the end of the book there are a dictionary of psychological terms and an object pointer.

recommended to students of medical schools and colleges.