Medical Psychology

Implications of moral psychology for medical education

Lectures in Medical Psychology

dietary fatty acids) in the production of irreversibly cross-linked proteins and nucleic acids. A number of testable hypotheses emerge (e.g. the effects of caloric overabundance on rate of cross-linking); these turn out to be stimulating for serious laboratory and clinical investigators. The major difficulty with this book is that too little is known about aging to permit real integration of ex...

An Outline of Medical Psychology

Personality disorders in medical psychology: medical training and professional creativity.

According to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders1 (DSM-5), “a personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment”. In th...

The Primary Problems of Medical Psychology