LF:VSLP7X1 Medical Psychology - Course Information

VSLP7X1 Medical Psychology

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2000

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

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Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Integral concept of a disease. Relation between physical symptoms and psychic state. Psychosocial approach.
The importance of relationship between physician and patient. Forms of communication. Variables modifying physician-patient relationship on conscious and unconscious level.
Role of patient, experiencing disease, attitude to disease, meaning of the symptom.
Role of therapist, adaptive and maladaptive realization and attitudes.
Burn-out syndrome, its prevention, supervision of therapist's work (Balint's groups, psychodrama).
Unconscious defensive psychic mechanisms (of patient and of therapist). Work with transference nad countertransference phenomena.
Introduction into psychotherapy, basic psychotherapeutical approaches. Principles of intervention during acute psychic crisis.
Psychological problems of each developmental period.
Role of psychologist in medical team, psychodiagnostic methods.
Psychological specificity olf medical care in individual branches, care of long-term patients and dying patient, work with pain, anxiety.
Relationships and forms of communication in a team of therapists.

Literature

Atkinsonová, R. L. a kol. Psychologie. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995. ISBN 80-85605-35-X.
BAŠTECKÝ, Jaroslav, Jiří ŠAVLÍK and Jiří ŠIMEK. Psychosomatická medicína. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, Avicenum, 1993, 363 s. ISBN 8071690317. info
KONEČNÝ, Robert and Milan BOUCHAL. Psychologie v lékařství. Vyd. 1. Brno: Universita J.E. Purkyně. Fakulta lékařská, 1970, 274 s. info
Health psychology : process and applications. Edited by Annabel Broome - Sue Llewelyn. 2nd ed. London: Chapman & Hall, 1995, xii, 427. ISBN 0412551209. info
FREUD, Sigmund. Výklad snů. Translated by Ota Friedmann. Vyd. 3.,upr. Pelhřimov: Nová tiskárna, 1997, 395 s. info
Práva pacientů :komentované vydání. Edited by Helena Haškovcová - Jan Petrášek. [1. vyd.]. Havířov: Nakladatelství Aleny Krtilové, 1996, 176 s. ISBN 80-902163-0-7. info
Analytická psychologie : její teorie a praxe : tavistocké přednášky. Edited by Carl Gustav Jung. 2. vyd. Praha: Academia, 1993, 205 s. ISBN 8020004807. info
BOUCHAL, Milan and Robert KONEČNÝ. Psychologie v lékařství. 3., rozš. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Avicenum, 1979, 368 s. info
VYBÍRAL, Zbyněk. Úvod do psychologie komunikace :přehled základních přístupů k interpersonální komunikaci. Vyd. 1. Hradec Králové: Gaudeamus, 1997, 118 s. ISBN 80-7041-002-7. info
Základy lékařské psychologie. Edited by Jan Vymětal. 1. vyd. Praha: Psychoanalytické nakladatelství, 1994, 185 s. ISBN 80-901601-3-1. info

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.