International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISPOG)
ISPOG is the lively world-wide organisation of professionals from different disciplines working in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. It is a platform for mutual exchange and understanding from the clinical, research and educational perspective. Currently, 18 national societies are members of ISPOG and they are happy to support the health professionals of every country working on raising their own national society in order to join in.
History:
On behalf of the Board of Officers and the Executive Committee, I delightfully write this message to mark the commencement of ISPOG’s diamond jubilee year. Sixty years ago, when a small group of like-minded, far-sighted specialists midwifed the birth of a new professional association focused on ‘Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology’, the biomedical model of care reigned supreme. Positivism, with its quantitative methods, bestrode the medical education and medical research terrains like a colossus. Over the ensuing six decades, there has been a gradual but sustained rise of the biopsychosocial model of care.