PSYCHOLOGY (2004)
Lisitsyn Yu.P. The monograph collects and summarizes data on the role of mental activity and
the results of its study by different Russian and foreign schools of psychologists,
psychiatrists, sociologists, etc., to diagnose, treat, amd prevent its disorders and to
use them in the protection and promotion of mental and somatic health of the population in
the formation and development of a psychological direction of medicine. In addition to the
well-known and practically applied methods of psychotherapy, psychological counseling,
emphasis is laid on the significance of psychohygiene, the formation of a healthy
lifestyle, ethicodeontological knowledge and on the role of the impact of different types
of art and religious beliefs. Tyulpin Yu. G. Psychological problems of medical practice are amply discussed in this book. Due
to the exclusively practical purpose of this book, the readers will have answers to many
problems associated with the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients.
Psychological hygiene of medical activities, prevention of psychological failures in
medical workers are discussed. Special sections deal with problems arising while working
with patients of different age, incurable patients, and patients in a terminal state. Each
of the situations is analyzed from different viewpoints with consideration for modern
trends in psychology. The theoretical material is confined to the problems of the greatest
practical importance for medics and essential for understanding the book. Personality
diagnosis, nature of person-person and intra-personal conflicts, individual mechanisms of
stress control received the greatest attention in this book. Special chapters describe
psychosomatic diseases and the notion of the "inner picture of disease".
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