Bio-Psycho-Social Obstetrics and Gynecology

Chapter 1 A Woman Afraid to Deliver: How to Manage Childbirth Anxiety

Chapter 2 A Woman Afraid of Becoming Pregnant Again: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Following Childbirth

Chapter 3 A Woman Who Cannot Enjoy Her Pregnancy: Depression in Pregnancy and Puerperium

Chapter 4 New Mothers with Disturbing Thoughts: Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and of Psychosis in Postpartum

Chapter 5 A Woman with a Positive Prenatal Test on Trisomy 21: Counseling in Prenatal Diagnosis

Chapter 6 Parents Who Lost Their Baby: Guiding the Mourning Process in Stillbirths and Pregnancy Terminations

Chapter 7 A Pregnant Woman Who Could Not Stop Drinking: Management of Alcohol Abuse in Pregnancy

Chapter 8 A Young Woman Asking for Labia Reduction Surgery: A Plea for “Vulvar Literacy”

Chapter 9 A Woman Struggling for Control: How to Manage Severe Eating Disorders

Chapter 11 A Woman Who Suffers Always and Forever: Management of Chronic Pelvic Pain

Chapter 12 A Woman Who Has Been Cut: Female Genital Mutilation from a Global Perspective

Chapter 13 A Woman with Stress Incontinence: Urogenital Complaints and Psychosexual Consequences

Chapter 14 A Couple Who Cannot Conceive: Coping with Infertility

Chapter 15 A Young Woman Facing Cancer Treatment: Shared Decision-Making in Fertility Preservation

Chapter 16 A Couple Who Considers Artificial Reproductive Techniques: Psychosocially Informed Care in Reproductive Medicine

Chapter 17 A Woman Who Never Could Have Coitus: Treatment of Lifelong Vaginismus

Chapter 18 A Woman with Coital Pain: New Perspectives on Provoked Vestibulodynia

Chapter 19 A Woman with Changing Vulvar Anatomy: Sexuality in Women with Lichen Sclerosus

Chapter 20 A Woman Complaining of Lack of Sexual Desire: Sexological Counseling

Chapter 21 A Theoretical and Empirical Study of the Core of the Psychosomatic Approach to Obstetrics and Gynecology: Meta-Competences, Clinical Roles, and POG Competency Profiles

Chapter 22 Introduction

Chapter 23 History: A Historical Perspective on Patient Education in Clinical Practice and in Medical Education

Chapter 24 Scholar: A Scholar Who Cannot See the Woods for the Trees: The Biopsychosocial Model as the Scientific Basis for the Psychosomatic Approach

Chapter 25 Health Advocate: An Obstetrician in Doubt—Coping with Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Decisions

Chapter 26 Communicator: The Gynecologist Who Could Not Convince His Patients

Chapter 27 Collaborator: A Midwife Who Had a Conflict with an Obstetrician—How to Transform “Contact Tics” into “Co Tactics”

Chapter 28 Professional: A Sexologist Who Overstepped the Mark—How to Handle the Therapeutic Relationship in Psychosocial Care

Chapter 29 Leader: A Proof of Leadership, Dealing with and Learning from Work-Related Psychotrauma

Chapter 30 Medical Expert: The Resident Who Passed the Ultimate Test—The Integration of Roles During the Gynecological Examination