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MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY
General Medicine, 3 rd year Medical Students
Institute of Behavioral Sciences
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ferenc Túry
Tutor: Dr. Piroska Balog
Credit: 3
2012/2013
2 nd Semester
Lectures:
1. Brain and behaviour (Bódizs R.)
2. Learning theory and human behaviour (Purebl Gy.)
3. Psychodynamic formulation of human behaviour (Stauder A.)
4. Stress and illness, behavioural interventions (Stauder A)
5. Altered states of consciousness in medical practice (Suhai G.)
6. Substance misuse and surrounding areas in medical practice (Lajtai L.)
7. Psychosomatic disorders (Túry F.)
Seminars:
1. Developmental psychology, attachment theories (Freud, Erikson, Mahler, Bowlby, Ainsworth)
2. Personality theories (the definition of personality, personality theories: behavioural theories –
Pavlov, Skinner; cognitive theories – Beck; Big Five; psychoanalytic theories – Freud, Jung;
humanistic theories: Rogers, Maslow. Personality tests.)
3. Human sexuality and sexual disorders; psychology of reproduction, psychology of birth.
4. Depression and mood disorders.
5. Anxiety and medical illnesses.
6. Psychosomatic disorders – case studies; somatization and dissociative disorders.
7. Eating disorders.
8. Personality disorders.
9. Sleep disorders.
10. Addiction, substance use.
11. Suicide, cry for help, crisis intervention.
12. Psychology of death, grief, and dying.
13. Behaviour change and psychotherapy. Stress management in medical practice.
14. Mental health of medical doctors. Prevention and management of burn-out. Bálint-groups.
Department:
Institute of Behavioral Sciences
Department of Psychology
NET Building, 20th floor
1089. Budapest, Nagyvárad tér 4.
Tel: 210-2953
Secretary: NET Building, 20th floor, Room-2005. tel: 2102930/ 56114.
Course Leader: Dr. Piroska Balog
NET 20 th floor, room 2011
Tel: 210-2930/ 56403, e-mail: balopir@net.sote.hu
Further information: www.behsci.sote.hu
SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Faculty of Medicine
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