Psychology for Psychiatrists

by Gupta, Rajinder M.; Gupta, Deepa

• ISBN13: 9781861561404
• ISBN10: 1861561407
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

One of the strengths of this book is that each chapter is written by a prominent specialist in their field. They particularly highlight points of clinical relevance and come from both academic and clinical psychology backgrounds. Many have worked with psychiatrists or have been involved in teaching psychology to psychiatrists in training.Contents • Part One Basic Psychology • Behaviourism and Learning Theory • Sensation and Perception • Information Processing and Attention • Remembering and Forgetting • The Development of Cognition, Moral Reasoning and Language • Understanding the Psychology of Personality • Motivation • Stress and Emotion: Physiology, Cognition and Health • Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy • Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, Sleepiness, Circadian Rhythms, Sleep Neurophysiology, Sleep Disorders and Dreaming • Neuro-psychology: Studying Behaviour following Brain Damage • Intelligence and its Measurement • Some Empirical Approaches to Individual Differences Part Two Human Development • Human Development • The Development of Sociability and Fears • Psychological Aspects of Adolescence and the Development of Identities • Psychological Development in Adult LIfe • Normal Ageing Part Three Social Psychology

Author Biography

Rajinder M. Gupta studied psychology at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. He did his professional training as an educational psychologist at Exeter University and PhD at Aston. Following his training, he worked as an educational psychologist for nearly two decades. In the last 15 years, he has worked as a Child and Adolescent Psychologist in the clinical psychology departments of several NHS trusts in the Midlands and has also helped train a number of clinical psychology trainees studying for their doctorate programme at Birmingham University. His current main area of interest, both from a clinical and academic standpoint, is the study of families with interactional diffi culties with their children and effective and effi cient ways of helping them.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction	xi
Part One: Basic Psychology	1	(276)
Behaviourism and learning theory	3	(17)
Dennis Trent
Sensation and perception	20	(21)
Helen E. Ross
Attention and information processing: applications to schizophrenia	41	(19)
Gerry Kent
Graham Turpin
Remembering and forgetting	60	(19)
M. Eacott
The development of cognition, moral reasoning and language	79	(25)
Kieron Sheeby
Understanding the psychology of personality	104	(25)
Man Cheung Chung
Motivation	129	(14)
Richard Toogood
Stress and emotion: physiology, cognition and health	143	(32)
Gerald Matthews
Hypnosis and hypnotherapy	175	(23)
Peter Davies
Sleep, sleep deprivation, sleepiness, circadian rhythms, sleep neurophysiology, sleep disorders, and dreaming	198	(17)
Mark Blagrove
Neuropsychology - studying behaviour following brain damage	215	(22)
M. Eacott
Intelligence and its measurement	237	(17)
John Pickering
Some empirical approaches to individual differences	254	(23)
Marilyn J. Williams
Part Two: Human Development	277	(96)
Human development	279	(21)
Helen Graham
The development of sociability and fears	300	(18)
N.J. Banks
Psychological aspects of adolescence and the development of identities	318	(11)
N.J. Banks
Psychological development in adult life	329	(21)
Janet R. Wheatley
Normal ageing	350	(23)
Janet R. Wheatley
Part Three: Social Psychology	373	(44)
Social psychology	375	(42)
Guy Cumberbatch
Paul Humphreys
Index	417