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The aim of this third and final part of this book is to provide insight into the fundamental building bricks 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 noticed 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 and that is exactly what the psychosomatic approach supports.
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van de Wiel, H.B.M., Paarlberg, K.M. (2017). Introduction. In: Paarlberg, K., van de Wiel, H. (eds) Bio-Psycho-Social Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40404-2_22
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