[The medical psychology in Hungary: way of thinking, frame of references and applications]. / Az orvosi pszichológia fejlodése hazánkban: szemléleti keretek, határterületek és alkalmazások.

The present study aims at overviewing the different stages of the education of medical psychology in Hungary. In the perspective of the achievements of cognitive and affective neuroscience as well as developmental psychology, we intend to define the roots of doctor-patient relationship, certain determining factors of diagnosis forming and therapy efficiency as well as the essential components of empathy. We attest to the fact that the current psychosomatic medicine with its evidence-based achievements is a valid component and constitutive pillar of everyday medical care. The integrated university level instruction of medical psychology and behavioral sciences aims at consolidating this perspective. We also emphasize that the ill body hinders adequate psychological functioning and mental disorders provide risk factors concerning somatic illnesses. Through spreading health psychology perspective, we support the concept that in everyday medical care, health protection and the development of health conscious behavior relies on responsible, informed and committed decision-making patients as well as on similarly educated extended medical care teams. Orv Hetil. 2018; 159(36): 1455-1464.

[Twenty-five years of psycho-oncology in New York: a retrospective]. / Vingt-cinq ans de pratique psycho-oncologique à New York: une rétrospective.

This article offers a retrospective overview of 25 years of implementation of psycho-oncology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center. It shows the ways and means used to obtain a progressive development of this sub-specialty for the purpose of improving patients' quality of life and helping professional teams wishing to offer integrated care to patients and families. It justifies the pragmatic approach adopted in the English-speaking world, which is also flexible and suited to the somatic realities of cancer. The role of all the various professionals care is highlighted, as is the parallel development of clinical research hand in hand with clinical practice in the field. This has enabled the determination of the prevalence psycho-pathologies in the field of cancer, and demonstrated the need for early screening, and the instatement and evaluation of various specific interventions. Today, psycho-oncology is considered as a natural component of supportive care, but it should continue to develop alongside other specialities in order to help patients and families to cope with cancer better, both during and after treatment.