SPERONI, Angela Vasconi. The place of Psychology in the general hospital. []. , 9, 2, pp.83-97. ISSN 1516-0858.

The present work has as central objective office to propitiate a reflection concerning the place of Psychology in the general hospital, from divergences found in Services of this specialty, in this institutional context in Brazil. Thus, it presents the Psychosomatic one while an ideology appeared in the Medicine in opposition to the purely organics vision of this category. From this conception it derived Medical Psychology directly, as model of practical to be applied by health professionals, amongst them psychologists, in the direction to optimize the medical task. Parallel, it appeared, exclusively in Brazil, the Hospital Psychology, from the performance of psychologists in general hospitals, that based on theoretical bases and techniques acquired in the general academic formation, had established a new modality of intervention. Finally, it presents the Health Psychology, while a sub-carrier of the Psychology already world-wide determined, that is found, in the current Brazilian context, in the target of the quarrels in relation to Hospital Psychology.

: Psychosomatic; Medical Psychology; Hospital Psychology; Health Psychology.

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