What is behavioural medicine all about?
Behavioural Medicine is the application of behavioural principles in understanding and management of different types of medical, neuropsychological and psychiatric problems, taking into consideration the genetic and bio-psycho-social dimensions of one individual client. Presently it is applied to the problems of immunity, fertility, expectant mothers, childhood problems, youth and adolescent problems, problem of sexual impotence, alcoholism, geriatric problems etc. It embraces the totality of human functioning though it has a lot of questions which are yet to be answered. What are the fields in which behavioural medicine is used? We find behavioural medicine being used in families, schools, industries, army and space. It is used in the form of a packaged programme which includes a combination of different therapies. Can you give a brief overview of the evolution of behavioural medicine in India? Clinical psychology started with Freud and his psychoanalysis but it started becoming accep
