Present-day status of psychosomatic gynecology

During the past decades psychosomatic gynecology could increasingly be esta blished due to the fact that psychological aspects are attributed to the wo men by the professionals and also actively demanded by the women themselves . If one considers the special diseases in psychosomatic gynecology the imp ortance of this medical field becomes evident and the demand for communicat ive skills in the doctor-patient relationship becomes inevitable. In the light of this development, training curricula have been installed in six German centers since the early 1990s, offering training in theory, Bal int groups and verbal intervention. The great challenge for the future will be to grant greater acceptance and financial benefits to research activiti es embedded in clinical gynecology.