Health ministry of republic of moldova the university of medicine and pharmacy nicolae testemiţanu

Lecture III.
Concepts of normality and abnormality…………................ 26 
Lecture IV.
The main characteristics of illness…………………………. 35 
Lecture V.
The psychosomatic (somatoform) concept of medici-
ne………………………………………………………………………… 
45 
Lecture VI.
The doctor – patient relationship…………………………... 56 
Lecture VII.
The personality as a psychological concept related to 
medicine…………………………………………………………………. 
75 
Lecture VIII.
The doctor personality…………………………………… 88 
Lecture IX.
The patient personality…………………………………….. 101 
Lecture X.
Psychofarmacology. The placebo effect................................. 121 
Lecture XI.
Psychotherapy. Types of psychotherapy. Medical appli-
cations of psychotherapy………………………………………………… 
134 
Lecture XII.
The psychohygiene and psychoprophylaxis.……………
 
149 
Appendix
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4 
Lecture I 
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF PSYCHOLOGY
AND ITS SUBFIELDS
 
Structure: 
1.
Psychology as a science. Research methods in psychology. 
2.
Brief history of psychology. Schools of thoughts in psychology. 
3.
Medical psychology. 
4.
Clinical psychology. 
Key terms:
 
psychology; the main goals of psychology; research 
methods: experiment, survey, naturalistic observation, case study; 
schools of thoughts in psychology: structuralism, functionalism, gestalt 
psychology, psychoanalysis, behaviorism,
 
humanistic psychology,
 
cog-
nitive psychology; medical psychology;