Deciding whether or not to become a parent is a developmental milestone in the adult life
course yet the specific term of reproductive identity is not commonplace. Significant …

Background Defining women's emotional experiences associated with abortion is a difficult
task. Many circumstantial factors affect women's emotional journeys during their abortion …

This study proposed that maternal bereavement in women who experienced miscarriage
and women who terminated for fetal abnormality would differ related to the existence of a …

The notion of a special intimacy between'the feminine and the sacred'has received
significant attention since the publication of Julia Kristeva and Cathérine Clément's famous …

Women who have an abortion experience a major disruption to their identities in addition to
being at a higher risk for deleterious health outcomes such as depression, anxiety, and …

It is over two decades since the first test-tube baby was born. During this period a new belief
that all infertile women can now have babies has become widely accepted; indeed, infertile …

The Creative Feminine and her Discontents, Psychotherapy, Art, and Destruction, is a look at
creativity from a woman's perspective. By looking at artistic endeavour, mothering and …

To see the Annunciation, a fresco by Fra Angelico in San Marco in Florence, you approach
the painting from below. It is on the wall at the top of a steep flight of steps that lead up to the …

Often the hands know how to solve a riddle that the intellect has wrestled with in vain.—CG
Jung The human hand is the one thing that separates us from other animals. Humans stand …

Debates on abortion have escalated following the implementation in 1997 of the new law
that legalises abortion from the age of twelve years in South Africa. Very often the person …