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Psychiatry And Psychology From A Methodological Point Of View
Dr. Yaman ÖRS,a Dr. Yasemin OĞUZa
aDeontoloji AD, Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, ANKARA
The purpose of this presentation is to compare psychiatry and psychology by stressing their similarities and differences. The methodological study of these fields has thus been taken as the basis for such a comparison. First of all, the concept of methodology has to be clarified. The authors define methodology as the effort to find answers to the questions of “What?”, “Why?”, “How?” as regards main human activities. In this perspective, psychology as a basic science tires to understand and explain the phenomena within its scope and to make reliable predictions. Psychiatry as a part of medical activity tries both to change and prevent disease, and to improve the state we call health. Making such a distinction between medicine and basic sciences in general forces us to give an account of the “basic sciences in medicine” or “Medical Basic Sciences”. On doing so, we have particularly stressed clinical psychology, for it is the intersection between psychiatry and psychology. Within the limits of this article, we have tired to provide a methodological basis for psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists, which they should take into account while evaluating themselves and the members of the intersecting fields.Keywords: Psychiatry, psychology, methodologyTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 1995,1:27-29
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