Women’s Health and Pandemic Crisis

​ Vivian Pramataroff Hamburger

Gynaecologist, psychotherapist, specialist of sexual medicine. Doctorate at Jena University on psychosomatic topic. Lecturer and supervisor at Munich university and Bavarian Medical Council, Board member of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology (ISPOG) since 2016.

Member of the Munich working group ＂Film & Psychoanalysis＂ in cooperation with the Academy for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy and the Munich Film Museum. Curator of the 1st International Bulgarian Festival Film and Psychoanalysis - Apollonia 2011, Sozopol, Bulgaria. Editor with Andreas Hamburger of the book ＂From La Strada to The Hours. Suffering and Sovereign Women in Feature Film＂ (Springer, 2021)

Mechthild Neises-Rudolf

Gynaecologist and psychotherapist with focus on psychosomatic gynaecology.

1998 to 2012 Head of the Department of Psychosomatic Gynaecology at the Hannover Medical School and since 2001 Associate Professor at the same institution. 2012 to 2022 Private practice for psychotherapy in Aachen, Germany

Honorary functions in several scientific societies, including the German Society for Psychosomatic Gynaecology and Obstetrics, DGPFG, where she was formerly president and is now a member of the advisory board and in the International Society for Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ISPOG, as President since 2022.

Numerous publications, book contributions and editorships. Since 2006, chief editor of the journal Ärztliche Psychotherapie und Psychosomatische Medizin published by Schattauer Publishers at Klett-Cotta.