Donor conception for life : psychoanalytic reflections on new ways of conceiving the family / edited by Katherine Fine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Katherine, author.

Contributor:

Fine, Katherine, editor.

Series:

Psychoanalytic ideas.

Psychoanalytic Ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--Data processing.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychology--Research.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2018.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is about the psychological experiences of women and men who have used donor conception to create their families. The authors offer diverse accounts of their clinical, research, and personal experiences. They describe the challenge of powerfulconscious and unconscious fantasies that can be aroused and how these may reawaken early anxieties and developmental struggles.Whilst recipients of donated eggs or sperm may think they are simply acquiring a factor of reproduction, they are also receiving the genetic history of another family. The sensitive management of these relationships is co

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; STATEMENT OF CONFIDENTIALITY; FOREWORD; PART I AN OVERVIEW OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES RELATED TO REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; CHAPTER ONE Introduction: how do we conceive the family?; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalysis and infertility: myths and realities; CHAPTER THREE Scrambled eggs: psychological meanings of new reproductive choices for lesbians; PART II DONOR CONCEPTION: AN EXPLORATION OF SOME OF THE ISSUES FACING INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES; CHAPTER FOUR Donor conception: family of choice?

CHAPTER FIVE "It takes a second to be a father but a lifetime to be a daddy." Men's experiences of infertility and donor conceptionCHAPTER SIX When baby makes three or four or more: attachment, individuation, and identity in assisted conception families; PART III AN EXPLORATION OF THE IMPACT UPON CHILDREN OF KNOWING HOW THEY WERE CONCEIVED; CHAPTER SEVEN Telling and talking: a family affair; CHAPTER EIGHT Understanding and managing relationships in donor assisted families; PART IV POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS AND SPECULATIONS ABOUT THE FUTURE

CHAPTER NINE Donor conception and the loss of old certaintiesAPPENDIX Organisations and useful websites; INDEX

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2015).

ISBN:

0-429-91292-7

0-429-89869-X

0-367-10312-5

0-429-47392-3

1-78241-340-5

9780429473920

OCLC:

905984537