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Zusatztext "Frozen Dreams" is the most honest and useful book to date on the subject of the emotional dimensions of infertility and assisted reproductive technology. The book is remarkably jargon free and accessible! and will thus be useful for the general reader and for the thoughtful couples who are contemplating reproductive technological intervention! as well as for general mental health professionals. A thorough author and subject index completes this practical! useful volume that will serve as a valuable reference work for its wisdom! guidance! and honesty."- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"[T]his book is written for a general audience! mental health clinicians of all levels of experience will be engaged by the case discussions! whether or not they work directly with patients who struggle with infertility. For clinicians who do work directly in the field of reproductive medicine or for advanced psychotherapists who have patients undergoing treatment for infertility! Frozen Dreams is a must-read."- Clinical Social Work Journal Informationen zum Autor Allison Rosen, Ph.D., is Supervisor of Psychotherapy, Past President, and Fellow, William Alanson White Institute; Co-Founder of the Fertility Preservation Special Interest Group, American Society of Reproductive Medicine; Medical Advisory Board Member FertileHope; Assistant Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis . Jay Rosen is President, Xint Corp (information technology), and an activist in education and desegregation. Klappentext Wedding up-to-date scientific information to an understanding of the emotional burdens and ethical dilemmas that inhere in reproductive medicine! this is an overview of the psychology of infertility patients and of the evaluative! administrative! and especially psychotherapeutic issues involved in helping them. Zusammenfassung Combining up-to-date scientific information with 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 over Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. Part I: The Psychological Burden of Infertility. Burns , Psychological Changes in Infertility Patients. Part II: From the Therapist's Side. Josephs , Therapist Anxiety about Motivation for Parenthood. Freeman , When the Therapist Is Infertile. Applegarth , The Therapist's Negative Preconceptions about Infertility Treatment. Kottick , Therapist Anger, Despair, Cynicism. Essig , Riding the Elephant in the Room: How I Use Countertransference in Couples Therapy. Malav , From Infertility to Adoption. Part III: Special Circumstances, Special Treatment Challenges. Grill , Treating Single Mothers by Choice. Covington , Miscarriage and Stillbirth. Watson, Jr. , When the Patient Has Experienced Severe Trauma. Lee, Licciardi , Extraordinary Circumstances: Termination of Three Pregnancies Conceived with Donated Oocytes. Part IV: Career Journals. Jackson , The Nurse's Perspective in a Reproductive Program. Greenfeld , Two Decades as an Infertility Therapist. ...
