The assumption is frequently made that women with severe nausea and vomiting during
pregnancy are transforming psychological distress into physical symptoms. Psychoanalytic …

To Freud, female sexuality remained something of a mystery: a riddle and a dark continent.
He urged his female colleagues to enlighten him. Many have since done so-and this book is …

In the following chapter, the authors attempt to give an overview of the various, variable, and
complex factors that lead to mental health concerns during the perinatal and postnatal …

Background. The increase in the numbers of women fearing childbirth and requesting
cesarean sections call for new forms of antenatal treatment. Methods. Finnish nulliparous …

A study was carried out between 1987 and 1989 to try to understand why women choose to
give their infants up for adoption at birth and the psychodynamics of this decision. The …

The authors review the psychological experience of pregnancy, which represents the
genesis of the infant–parent relationship. Importantly, they document that this relationship …

In Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation, Iris Marion Young describes the lived
bodily experience of women who have “chosen” their pregnancies. In this essay, Lundquist …

The relationship between 'narrative'and 'historical–biographical truth'in psychoanalytic
treatment has become the subject of many controversial debates in recent years. Findings of …

In The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent
Tradition, Nancy J. Chodorow brings together her two professional identities, psychoanalyst …

This article describes how the intrapsychic, psychosocial, and social ramifications of
infertility may be addressed when infertility patients present with distress at the …