Main description:

The interplay between mind and body is a rapidly developing area of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, growing in prominence as many areas of medicine recognise the importance of understanding the physical, mental, and social aspects of complex conditions. Clinical Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology: A Patient-Centred Biopsychosocial Approach is the fundamental work facilitating the management of women's disease conditions resulting from psychosomatic or
mind-body interactions routinely encountered by clinicians.

Authored by a world-renowned group of contributors who have led a transformative approach to the way services to women are approached, Clinical Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology comprehensively addresses the biological, psychological, social and cultural factors leading to disease manifestations. Including methods for prevention, detection and treatment, the text is supported by thirty case studies taken from real-life situations to support learning and guide clinical practice.

Detailed chapters expound the scientific basis of the clinical psychosomatic concept, prevention of morbidity and mortality from cancer or obesity, pregnancy and childbirth, maternal dysphoria and child neurodevelopment, pain perception, infertility, premenstrual disorders, psycho-oncology, malignancy and sexual health, illnesses in migrants and refugees, alongside, pertinent cultural issues. This title is a highly topical and much needed guide to addressing clinical conditions that compromise
women's health, including that of teenagers, as well as their mental and social well-being.

Contents:

1: Mira Lal: Clinically Significant Mind-Body Interactions: Evolutionary History of the Scientific Basis
2: Johannes Bitzer: Teaching Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology
3: Vivette Glover, TG O'Connor and Kieran O'Donnell: Maternal mood in pregnancy: fetal origins of child neurodevelopment
4: Roch Cantwell and Mira Lal: Preconceptual to postpartum mental health: Mental illness and Psychosomatic disease
5: Chiara Benedetto, Ilaria Castagnoli Gabellari and Gianni Allais: Migraine and Pregnancy-related Hypertension
6: Mira Lal and Johannes Bitzer: Disease Severity, Pain and Patient Perception - Themes in Clinical Practice and Research
7: Tamaki Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Asakura and Tatsuya Hayashi: Premenstrual Disorders: Luteal phase recurrent enigmatic conditions
8: Mira Lal: Women's psychosomatic health promotion and the biopsychosociocultural nexus
9: Allan B. Maclean: Vulval Pain
10: Hideki Onishi and Mayumi Ishida: Psycho-oncology and psychosocial aspects of gynaecological cancer
11: Reiko Ohkawa: Psycho-oncology: The sexuality of women and cancer
12: Mira Lal: Migration, gender and cultural issues in healthcare: Psychosomatic implications