Medicine and creativity in medical psychology

Medicine and creativity in 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...

Creativity in Medicine and Medical Education

Contributors: Dr Dominic Slowie, Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne; Shee Lippell, University of Plymouth Business School; Jill Dales; Peter Campion, University of Hull; Sarah Gull; Amanda Howe, Institute of Health University of East Anglia; Gill McConnell, University of Edinburgh; Eva Doherty, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland; Penny Morris, University of Leeds; Rafey Faruqui, Imperial Col...

Preserving Creativity in Medicine

G alvanized by rising costs, increased calls for greater accountability, and an Institute of Medicine (Washington, D. C., United States) report suggesting that medical errors may kill nearly 100,000 Americans every year [1], United States health care experts have tried to boost the quality of patient care by focusing on the speed and precision of service delivery. Several insurance companies ha...

Physics, Psychology, and Medicine

This 143-page essay by Professor Woodger is rewritten from a series of lectures given to the staff of the senior students of the Department of Physiology in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. Additional material to the student lectures was derived from Professor Woodger's Tarner Lectures published in 1952 under the title, Biology and Language. Essentially this is a plea for a broader educat...