But unlike the behaviorist school of thought that focuses only on observable behaviors, cognitive psychology studies internal mental states and processes (Cacioppo, 2016). Cognitive psychology is used in this because cognitive psychologists are most concerned with studying how we think, perceive, remember, forget, solve problems, focus, and learn. Later, he describes a patient given a grave prognosis only to recover, revealing the faulty and limited logic of the physicians providing care (Groopman, 2008). Further on a physician, beginning with careful elicitation of the patient’s story, was able to set aside those prior diagnoses to discover that she in fact had celiac disease. Originally, she was diagnosed for years with a series of functional and mental disorders, including bulimia (Groopman, 2008). The book begins with a brief description of a woman with abdominal pains. In the first few sections, Groopman explores how, when, and why diagnoses are missed by some physicians and captured by others. Some of the psychological concepts that is discussed in the novel is the Idea of Cognitive psychology and how personality plays a role.

Although intended for the general public, the book offers clinicians an irresistible promise of self-understanding, and in many ways succeeds. In a style familiar to readers of his New Yorker articles, Groopman uses detailed case studies of physicians to make clear, logical, and compelling arguments. The explicit purpose of How doctors think is to give laypeople an understanding of the medical mind so that they can participate more actively in clinical conversations and improve the care that they receive. In the engaging and well put together book, Jerome Groopman, the author of How Doctors Think (2008), explores the mind behind of the physician’s mind.

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