Psychocardiology

Psychosomatic diagnostics and therapy are of increasing importance in the acutetreatment, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases. The connectionbetween heart disease and the psyche as well as the psychosocial concomitantsymptoms is well documented. Contents: *Basics of cardiology and psychosomatic medicine; *Doctor-patient relationship; *Ethical issues, gender effects, psychocardiology along the lifespan; *Psychosomatic problem areas and comorbidities in coronary heart disease: Personality factors, risk behaviours, depression, anxiety disorders; *Specific problems in other cardiovascular diseases and treatment settings; *Diagnostics; *Interdisciplinary cooperation, treatment and rehabilitation; *Training courses in psychocardiology. The book offers cardiologists, internists, general practitioners,psychotherapists and psychologists all practice-relevant basics to be able to treattheir patients in the best possible way. It is a translation of an original Germanedition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machinetranslation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was doneprimarily in terms of content, so that the book may read stylistically differently from aconventional translation.