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Frozen Dreams - Psychodynamic Dimensions of Infertility and Assisted Reproduction (Hardcover)
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Frozen Dreams - Psychodynamic Dimensions of Infertility and Assisted Reproduction (Hardcover)
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Wedding up-to-date scientific information to an understanding of
the emotional burdens and ethical dilemmas that inhere in
reproductive medicine, Frozen Dreams: Psychodynamic Dimensions of
Infertility and Assisted Reproduction provides an overview of the
psychology of infertility patients and of the evaluative,
administrative, and especially psychotherapeutic issues involved in
helping them. The contributors to this volume, who include
professionals from nationally prestigious reproductive programs and
psychotherapists who evaluate and work clinically with infertility
patients, explore the complex choices about life and death that are
the daily experience of infertility specialists. In voices equally
authoritative and intimate, psychotherapists and other health
professionals explore the therapeutic process with patients and
couples struggling with miscarriage, infertility, childlessness,
the possibility of adoption, and the promise of assisted pregnancy.
Among the themes that recur throughout this collection are the
following: When is a patient's bitterness, anger, and
psychopathology extreme enough to disqualify her as a candidate for
infertility treatment? the well-being of offspring resulting from
an assisted pregnancy? How does the clinician's personal diagnosis
of infertility influence an ongoing psychodynamic treatment? How
can a therapist help patients overcome the overwhelming grief of
miscarriage? And the contributors are equally attentive to the
range of issues that challenge physicians and nurses active in
reproductive medicine. Intent on providing practical information
that will aid decision-making in this demanding area of practice,
they examine questions such as: How reproductive medicine programs
should handle difficult patients who present with a sense of
entitlement. How staff differences within reproductive medicine
programs can be constructively addressed and resolved. Why
physicians, nurses, and other program personnel experience burnout
and what can be done to prevent it. Written for a large audience of
psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, researchers, nurses,
physicians, and general readers, Frozen Dreams is a fascinating
introduction to the human face of reproductive medicine. mental
health professionals who work with adult patients through their
childbearing years. For professionals who work inside the complex
world of infertility treatment, Frozen Dreams will quickly become
an essential text that is turned to repeatedly for information,
guidance, reassurance, and revitalization.
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