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 treat their patients in the best possible way. It is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book may read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.