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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.
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
1.Introduction,
Renata Viola Vives and Ana Teresa Vale2.Fantasies of origin and the origin of fantasiesPaola Marion, with contributions from Eleonora Di Lucia, Veronika Garms, Selene Mancinelli, and Giovanna Pavanello3.Illusion, illusional belief, and mourning in infertilityEmanuela Quagliata4."The empty cradle": Envy, shame and shaming in infertilityMelis Tanik Sivri5.Reflections on the concept of "Passion for a Child" Graciela Cardó Soria6.Emotional aspects of donorsNancy Tame Ayub7.Live babies and dead babies: Pregnancy and pregnancy loss in analysisAna Teresa Vale8.As good as it gets: Psychoanalysis as a fertile encounterConceição Tavares de Almeida9.The taboo of egg donation: From fairy tales to mythSofia Barandiaran Perez-Yarza10.Symbolic affiliation in a case of egg donationRenata Viola Vives 11.Motherhood without pregnancy: Surrogacy, a challenge for femininity and maternal preoccupationChristine Anzieu-Premmereur 12.Surrogacy at the origins of the construction of a familyKaty Bogliatto
About the author
Renata Viola Vives is a psychoanalyst for children, adolescents, and adults and a COWAP Latin American representative. She has worked in the field of assisted reproduction for 15 years.
Ana Teresa Vale is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst living and working in Lisbon. Currently COWAP European representative, she is also part of the editorial board of the
Portuguese Psychoanalytic Journal.
Summary
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.
