Health psychology examines how biological, psychological, and social factors influence health and illness. The field emerged due to limitations of past medical models that did not consider the connection between the mind and body. Current research in health psychology uses a biopsychosocial model and various tools to study how biological, psychological, and social variables interact and impact health.

1. What is health psychology?

4. Why is the field of health psychology needed?

5. Humoral theory of hippocrates *Medical Practice *Dualism mind-body *Sigmund Freud’s conversion hysteria *Dunbar’s and Alexander’s psychosomatic medicine *Mysticism and demonology *Church *Evil spirits *Trephination

6. Biopsychosocial Model

7. Advantages of the biopsychosocial Model

8. BPS Research Tools and Interaction of Variables

9. Clinical Implications