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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.
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.
This SpringerBriefs employs a novel approach to obtain the precise
asymptotic behavior at infinity of a large class of permanental
sequences related to birth and death processes and autoregressive
Gaussian sequences using techniques from the theory of Gaussian
processes and Markov chains. The authors study alpha-permanental
processes that are positive infinitely divisible processes
determined by the potential density of a transient Markov process.
When the Markov process is symmetric, a 1/2-permanental process is
the square of a Gaussian process. Permanental processes are related
by the Dynkin isomorphism theorem to the total accumulated local
time of the Markov process when the potential density is symmetric,
and by a generalization of the Dynkin theorem by Eisenbaum and
Kaspi without requiring symmetry. Permanental processes are also
related to chi square processes and loop soups. The book appeals to
researchers and advanced graduate students interested in stochastic
processes, infinitely divisible processes and Markov chains.
This book was first published in 2006. Written by two of the
foremost researchers in the field, this book studies the local
times of Markov processes by employing isomorphism theorems that
relate them to certain associated Gaussian processes. It builds to
this material through self-contained but harmonized 'mini-courses'
on the relevant ingredients, which assume only knowledge of
measure-theoretic probability. The streamlined selection of topics
creates an easy entrance for students and experts in related
fields. The book starts by developing the fundamentals of Markov
process theory and then of Gaussian process theory, including
sample path properties. It then proceeds to more advanced results,
bringing the reader to the heart of contemporary research. It
presents the remarkable isomorphism theorems of Dynkin and
Eisenbaum and then shows how they can be applied to obtain new
properties of Markov processes by using well-established techniques
in Gaussian process theory. This original, readable book will
appeal to both researchers and advanced graduate students.
This book was first published in 2006. Written by two of the
foremost researchers in the field, this book studies the local
times of Markov processes by employing isomorphism theorems that
relate them to certain associated Gaussian processes. It builds to
this material through self-contained but harmonized 'mini-courses'
on the relevant ingredients, which assume only knowledge of
measure-theoretic probability. The streamlined selection of topics
creates an easy entrance for students and experts in related
fields. The book starts by developing the fundamentals of Markov
process theory and then of Gaussian process theory, including
sample path properties. It then proceeds to more advanced results,
bringing the reader to the heart of contemporary research. It
presents the remarkable isomorphism theorems of Dynkin and
Eisenbaum and then shows how they can be applied to obtain new
properties of Markov processes by using well-established techniques
in Gaussian process theory. This original, readable book will
appeal to both researchers and advanced graduate students.
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