Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis (Psychoanalysis and Women Series)

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Synopsis
Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis reflects on contemporary views on pregnancy, while offering guidance on how to work with women and couples experiencing infertility as well as the unique issues raised by having a child through assisted reproduction technologies.Comprised of chapters written by eminent analysts working with infertile couples and women, and parents who have a child born from assisted reproduction, this book offers insightful ways to better understand the challenges these patients undertake and the various issues this might bring into the analytic room. The contributors examine the myriad psychic problems subjects are confronted with which could impact their ability to bond with children born through ART: the mourning processes infertility entails, the identification with the fertile parental couple, the unconscious representation of origin, the representation of the primal scene, and the process of symbolic affiliation. They consider the working-through these processes necessitate in order to enable filiation and healthy parenting, and give invaluable tools to the analyst to enable the promotion of psychological growth. Throughout, the chapters address the emotions that infertility summons in which both patient and analyst find a spectrum of unconscious phantasies and anxieties.This book is an essential read for psychoanalysts and other professionals working in the field of ART, as well as those interested in motherhood and its vicissitudes and intersection with psychoanalysis.
Copyright:
2025

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
200 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781040123386
Related ISBNs:
9781040123379, 9781032693439, 9781032693446, 9781032639826
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Renata Viola Vives and Ana Teresa Vale
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Psychology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Renata Viola Vives
Edited by:
Ana Teresa Vale

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