[Medical psychology - a tradition-laden area or the expression of a new development in medicine?].
A description is given of the development of medical and clinical psychology. Clinical psychology is a field of certificated psychologists. Medical psychology is developing in a completely new form to deal in a scientific way with the problems existing between physician and patient as well as in the social field of the patient in the hospital and in his private environment. The same applies to the psychosocial part of the ethopathogenesis of the disease and the forms of the disease. The future of the developing field and the academic representation as well as the belonging of medical psychology to neuropsychiatry are discussed.
D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D008511:Medicine / Q000639:trends*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000639:trends*; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012917:Social Adjustment; D013038:Specialization
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs
Medizinische Psychologie - traditionsbeladenes Gebiet oder Ausdruck einer neuen Entwicklungs-richtung in der Medizin?