Clinical Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Alkistis Skalkidou, Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica [Clinical Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology] merits attention and the content is absolutely worth reading as a summary of knowledge on conditions involving bodymind interactions within the field of obstetrics and gynecology.

From the foreword by Baroness Finlay of Llandaff [Clinical Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology] tackles the previously buried subject of the interplay between a woman's psychological state, her social situation, and her gynaecological functioning in health and in disease. It opens the reader's eyes to the private anguish of so many women, which until now has gone largely unrecognised.

From the foreword by Sir Sabratnam Arulkumaran This book is highly recommended for practising obstetricians and gynaecologists, trainess, general practitioners, and those with an interest, professional, or otherwise, in developing a more complete understanding of women's psychosomatic health.

Dr. Mira Lal is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist specialising in the physical, mental, and social facets of women's disease and well-being. She undertook clinical research to understand mind-body (psychosomatic) interactions in disease, and was conferred a post-MRCOG doctorate encompassing Obstetrics & Gynaecology along with Neuroscience, Psychiatry; Social Pathology; Social & Public welfare; Psychology; Public aspects of Medicine; Family, Marriage & Woman and Statistics. She was made an Expert Columnist for the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Informacion Cientifica and was awarded a prize for presenting at the EBCOG Congress in 2014. In recognition of her attainments, besides invited publications/reviewing, she was granted Fellowship of of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists for "advancing the Art & Science of Obstetrics and Gynaecology".

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