Introduction




© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
K Marieke Paarlberg and Harry B.M. van de Wiel (eds.)Bio-Psycho-Social Obstetrics and Gynecology10.1007/978-3-319-40404-2_22


22. Introduction



Harry B. M. van de Wiel  and K. Marieke Paarlberg 


(1)
Wenckebach Institute, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

(2)
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gelre Hospitals, Apeldoorn Location, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

 



 

Harry B. M. van de Wiel (Corresponding author)



 

K. Marieke Paarlberg



Keywords
Psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology (POG)International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISPOG)Clinical governance



22.1 Introduction


The aim of the third and final part of this book is to provide insight into the fundamental building blocks of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynecology (POG). This insight enables health care professionals to put women’s healthcare problems in different perspectives and to use the capacities of many disciplines to help women to resolve them. Although the importance of this approach was already noted in the early 1950s by eminent colleagues such as Balint and Engel, its full merit becomes more and more visible in our current era of empowerment and connectivity. Each day it becomes clear that most patients do not need a God to treat them but a professional to guide them [1] and that is exactly what the psychosomatic approach supports.

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Oct 17, 2017 | Posted by in GYNECOLOGY | Comments Off on Introduction

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