Positive Psychotherapy to Support Medical Student Education

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to report on the benefits of using the method of Nossrat Peseschkian, modified by Professor Ivanka Boncheva and applied by her students in a medical environment and especially in the training of medical students. More than ten years of experience working with medical students and applying the postulates of positive psychotherapy help to acquire skills and understand the difference between simply asking questions and getting answers and the skill of “ therapeutic listening”. Understanding transference and countertransference relationships. The concept of the psychosomatic arc is also used to explain the complex relationships between illness and emotion.

Keywords

• positive psychotherapy
• medical communication
• psychosomatics