TY - BOOK ID - 77924741 TI - Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology PY - 2014 SN - 0429903669 0429478895 1782412832 9781782412830 130695746X 9781306957465 9781781814154 1781814155 9781780491967 1780491964 0429917899 9780429917899 9780429903663 9780429478895 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Human reproductive technology. KW - Fertilization in vitro. KW - Conception. KW - Fertilization, Human KW - Human fertilization KW - Fertility, Human KW - Fertilization (Biology) KW - Human reproduction KW - Contraception KW - Ectogenesis, Preimplantational KW - Fertilization, In vitro KW - Fertilization, Laboratory KW - Fertilization, Test tube KW - In vitro fertilization KW - IVF (Reproduction) KW - Laboratory fertilization KW - Preimplantational ectogenesis KW - Test tube fertilization KW - Genetic engineering KW - Reproductive technology KW - Assisted conception KW - Assisted human reproduction KW - Assisted human reproductive technology KW - Conception KW - Human assisted reproduction KW - Human assisted reproductive technology KW - Medical technology KW - Technological innovations KW - Human reproductive technology KW - Psychoanalysis KW - Psychological aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Human reproductive technology - Psychological aspects KW - Human reproductive technology - Social aspects KW - Psychoanalysis - Case studies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77924741 AB - "This book contributes in an important way to the psychoanalytic understanding and impact of Assisted Reproductive Technology on a majority of patients who have difficulties starting new families. Recent advances in reproductive technology and the increased use of techniques based upon it have created a need for psychoanalytic thinking and understanding of the psychological implications of Assisted reproductive procedures, in-vitro fertilization and other similar procedures. The recent and rapid advances in medical technologies confront us with a mandate in our clinical work to understand their complex impact on women, men, and children. However, attention to the intra psychic conflicts and traumatic experience of the use of such techniques has not been addressed in psychoanalytic literature. The developmental trauma and intra psychic conflicts of individuals using reproductive technologies are ubiquitous, yet it has been neglected as a topic of special interest in our clinical work. The centerpiece of these collective chapters deal with psychic trauma of infertility, the compulsion to repeat through persistent repeated use of assisted reproductive technology, anxiety about motherhood, and finally the lives of children who are born and do not know from where they came. These poignant topics deal with family complexes and the Oedipal circle, repetition compulsion, trials and failures, anxiety related to motherhood, egg and sperm donors, parental identity formation, infertility, trauma, and discussion of a contemporary film depicting the challenging and newly defined family structure."--Provided by publisher. ER -