Infertility by Choice or by Nature

Stewart, Donna E.; Robinson, Gail Erlick

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“…More recent research suggests that although intrapsychic conflict may be a factor, having children versus having a career is not the sole or even most significant issue (Stewart & Robinson, 1989). Rather, the interaction between psychological factors and infertility is what is important.…”

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“…In fact, an additional 10% to 12% of women experience secondary infertility, thus doubling the number of women for whom childbearing is problematic (Trantham, 1996). The fact that infertility rates increase with age is an additional consideration (Mosher & Pratt, 1990), given the trend among young couples toward delaying marriage and childbearing in favor of career pursuits (Eunpu, 1995;Matthews & Matthews, 1986;Stewart & Robinson, 1989). Among women of childbearing age, difficulties conceiving combined with an inability to carry a child to term result in 6.1 million women between the ages of 15 and 44 reporting an impaired ability to have children (CDC, 1998).…”

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Gender and Infertility: A Relational Approach to Counseling Women

Gibson

Myers²

2000

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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Much of the research on infertility reinforces differing effects for women and men, with women reporting more serious repercussions medically, psychologically, and socially. However, the unique counseling needs of infertile women have not been addressed through traditional counseling theory. The Relational Model (J. V. Jordan, 1995) of women's development is a theory that explains women's development in a context of relationships, specifically relationships that promote growth for self and others. This model is applied to counseling women who are experiencing infertility, and a case presentation is provided to illustrate the approach.

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Gender and Infertility: A Relational Approach to Counseling Women

Gibson

Myers²

2000

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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“…However, many of these couples end up using IVF as a method of choice in treating infertility. A consequence for couples choosing IVF is the increasing stress and consequences resulting from the IVF process itself [7,9,13,14,15]. Therefore, going through IVF can be a source of enormous psychological and emotional difficulties for couples trying to conceive a child [5,16,17].…”

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Psychological consequences of IVF fertilization – Review of research

Malina¹,

Pooley²

2017

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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“…301,302,303,304,305 Although it is unclear how the oldest parents fare, women who postpone parenthood until after age 35 report fewer physical complaints and increased satisfaction with their life situation at 1 year after delivery, compared with younger women. 294 Although increased motivation for parenthood may account for this positive adaptation for many, older parents represent a diverse group, with the midlife parental experience influenced by four key factors: social class, gender, life events, and intervening social psychologic processes. 306 Obstetricians need not personally endorse alternative family arrangements to recognize that the traditional American nuclear family is not all-purpose and that other forms of parenthood and family structure may more effectively meet the needs of many parents and their children.…”

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Psychology of Reproduction: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Parental Ties

Leon¹

2008

GLOWM

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Freudian drive theory focused on the psychic expression of instinctual drives (i.e. sexuality and aggression); its later revision, ego psychology, emphasized how those instincts are adaptively managed by our coping resources, the ego and its defenses. 3, 4 Although Freud eventually constructed a complex psychology of human functioning, it should not be forgotten that his roots, aspirations, and beliefs were steeped in a psychophysiologic model, making him, in Sulloway's terms, a "biologist of the mind". 5 As an instinctual process, pregnancy was understood as recapitulating infantile sexuality. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 In the first trimester, with the attachment of the fetus inside the uterus, orality predominates, coinciding with symptoms of nausea and food cravings. In the next trimester, the fetus is accorded greater personhood during quickening as anal trends become more prominent, corresponding to the toddler period of increased separation from parents. Finally, during the third trimester, as the mother prepares for delivery, phallic-aggressive wishes, associated with urethral issues, gain ascendance, linked with heightened fears that she or the baby may die, along with the dread of losing control. As well as this libidinal regression, earlier modes of cognition typically occur during pregnancy. Ego regression with a distorted perception of reality, magical thinking associated with primary process (e.g. irrational beliefs and fears), and greater emotional volatility are all a normal part of pregnancy. 10, 11 This often leads to high anxiety, 9, 12 with obsessional, compulsive, and phobic preoccupations 13 that give the appearance of emotional disturbance on psychologic measures. 14 With the lessening of defenses, pregnancy can be seen as an optimal time for psychoanalytic interventions.

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Infertility by Choice or by Nature

Cited by 19 publications

References 22 publications

Gender and Infertility: A Relational Approach to Counseling Women

Gender and Infertility: A Relational Approach to Counseling Women

Psychological consequences of IVF fertilization – Review of research

Psychology of Reproduction: Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Parental Ties

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