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• About the authors
• Acknowledgements
• Guided tour
• Online resources
• 1 Psychology and medicine
• Psychology, health, and medicine
• What is health?
• Why is psychology important?
• The science of mind and body
• Different approaches to medicine and healthcare
• Social diversity and health
• Section I: Psychology and Health
• 2 Motivation, emotion, and health
• Motivation
• Motivation and health
• Emotion
• Emotion and health
• 3 Stress and health
• What is stress?
• Stress and health
• Stress in medicine and healthcare
• Managing stress
• 4 Symptoms and illness
• Symptom perception
• Pain
• Placebo and nocebo effects
• Illness beliefs and representations
• 5 Health and behaviour
• Predicting and changing health behaviour
• Social cognitive models of health behaviour
• Process models of conscious behaviour change
• Non-conscious influences on health behaviour
• 6 Chronic illness, death, and dying
• Chronic illness
• Psychological intervention
• Death and dying
• Death and healthcare practice
• Section II: Basic Foundations of Psychology
• 7 Brain and behaviour
• Components and organisation of the nervous system
• Communication within and between neurons
• Structure of the brain and central nervous system
• Control of movement
• Sleep, consciousness, and biological clocks
• 8 Psychosocial development across the lifespan
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Adulthood
• Old age
• 9 Social psychology
• Attitudes
• Self psychology
• Individuals and groups
• Antisocial and prosocial behaviour
• 10 Cognitive psychology
• Perception
• Attention
• Learning
• Memory
• Cognitive biases in healthcare
• Section III: Body Systems
• 11 Immunity and protection
• Infection, inflammation, and immunity
• Psychological aspects of immune disorders
• Skin
• Cancer
• 12 Cardiovascular and respiratory health
• Cardiovascular health
• Respiratory health
• 13 Gastrointestinal health
• Psychological factors and the GI system
• Lifestyle and GI health
• GI disorders
• 14 Reproduction and endocrinology
• Reproduction
• Endocrine function and psychosocial wellbeing
• 15 Genitourinary medicine
• Sexual health
• Sexually transmitted infections
• Prostate and testicular cancer
• Urinary incontinence and renal failure
• 16 Psychiatry and neurology
• Psychiatry
• Diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders
• Neurological disorders
• Neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation
• Section IV: Healthcare Practice
• 17 Evidence-based practice
• Evidence-based practice
• Adherence to treatment
• Practitioner–patient communication
• 18 Clinical interviewing
• How we communicate
• Clinical interviewing
• Difficult interviews
• Giving bad news
• 19 Psychological intervention
• Different approaches to psychotherapy
• Which therapy is best?
• Psychological interventions in medical settings
• Technology and psychological intervention
• References
• Index