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Pregnancy, Assisted Reproduction, and Psychoanalysis
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Fantasies of origin and the origin of fantasies
- Chapter 3 Illusion, illusional belief, and mourning in infertility
- Chapter 4 “The Empty Cradle”: Envy, shame, and shaming in infertility
- Chapter 5 Reflections on the concept of “Passion for a Child”
- Chapter 6 Emotional aspects of donors
- Chapter 7 Live babies and dead babies: Pregnancy and pregnancy loss in analysis
- Chapter 8 As good as it gets: Psychoanalysis as a fertile encounter
- Chapter 9 The taboo of egg donation: From fairy tales to myth
- Chapter 10 Symbolic affiliation in a case of egg donation
- Chapter 11 Motherhood without pregnancy: Surrogacy, a challenge for femininity and maternal preoccupation
- Chapter 12 Surrogacy at the origins of the construction of a family
- Index