Are you • having trouble conceiving?
• experiencing miscarriages?
• having severe nausea and sickness during pregnancy?
• involved in fertility treatment?
If so, this course may be of interest to you. It explores ideas from a body of scientific literature from the 50's and 60's that shows psychodynamic psychotherapy has proven helpful in many cases where couples have had trouble conceiving or when a woman has had difficulty carrying a baby to term. With the onset of new technologies in the 70's and 80's, the ideas of approaching fertility issues psychodynamically seemed to lose favour. How infertile couples could conceive became the main focus. Thinking about why the couple may be having difficulty becoming parents and considering whether a psychological intervention could help faded into the background.
"When Pregnancy Doesn't Come Easily" explores:
• the ways some fertility issues have been resolved psychodynamically,
• the emotions couples experience and must navigate - related to invasive procedures, disappointments, sense of failure, the seeming presence of third parties - the infertility staff - in the bedroom taking away pleasure in sex etc. • how unresolved conflicts from the past as well as current psychological burdens can come into play and impact on fertility troubles.
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