title: [Health psychology, medical psychology, psychosomatic medicine and liaison psychiatry].
abstract: Health psychology is a new discipline which introduces transactional conceptions and biopsychosocial integrative models of health and disease. Its fields of research overlap the traditional domain of psychosomatic medicine (study and treatment of the mind--conscious or unconscious--of organic patients), and also, partially, the domain of psychological medicine (which in France is focused on the psychology of the practitioner and the patient-doctor relationship), behavioral medicine and liaison psychiatry (which is the use of modern diagnosis and treatment of psychiatry proper to medical patients). Rather than a potential competition, one must see a challenge and an opportunity for renewal of psychiatry in the field of medicine as well as collaborative perspectives. Health psychology uses new stringent methodology and instruments for research (dimensions) evolving from scientific psychology. Brief and critical analysis of this new discipline.
authors: I.P.S.O., Université Bordeaux II.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Bourgeois
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences; D004194:Disease / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry; D011584:Psychology; D011591:Psychology, Medical; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine
vernacular_title: Psychologie de la santé, psychologie médicale, psychosomatique et psychiatrie de liaison.