Based on a course of lectures given to medical students in Cambridge, emphasizes the relevance of psychology to medicine using illustrations from laboratory and clinical studies. The editors, both psychologists, try to avoid the traditional textbook approach and aim to offer a lively grounding in psychological principles by means of a broad but integrated approach with numerous cross references. Medical students, including those at postgraduate teaching centres and psychiatric hospitals, should find this book useful, as should qualified doctors wanting to specialize in pyschiatry and studying for the MRCPsych.