Introduction. Part I: The Psychological Burden of Infertility.Burns, Psychological Changes in Infertility Patients. Part II: From the Therapist's Side.Josephs, Therapist Anxiety about Motivation for Parenthood. Freeman, When the Therapist Is Infertile. Applegarth, The Therapist's Negative Preconceptions about Infertility Treatment. Kottick, Therapist Anger, Despair, Cynicism. Essig, Riding the Elephant in the Room: How I Use Countertransference in Couples Therapy. Malav, From Infertility to Adoption. Part III: Special Circumstances, Special Treatment Challenges.Grill, Treating Single Mothers by Choice. Covington, Miscarriage and Stillbirth. Watson, Jr., When the Patient Has Experienced Severe Trauma. Lee, Licciardi, Extraordinary Circumstances: Termination of Three Pregnancies Conceived with Donated Oocytes. Part IV: Career Journals.Jackson, The Nurse's Perspective in a Reproductive Program. Greenfeld, Two Decades as an Infertility Therapist.
Allison Rosen, Ph.D., is Supervisor of Psychotherapy, Past President, and Fellow, William Alanson White Institute; Co-Founder of the Fertility Preservation Special Interest Group, American Society of Reproductive Medicine; Medical Advisory Board Member FertileHope; Assistant Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis.
Jay Rosen is President, Xint Corp (information technology), and an activist in education and desegregation.
"Frozen Dreams is the most honest and useful book to date on the
subject of the emotional dimensions of infertility and assisted
reproductive technology. The book is remarkably jargon free and
accessible, and will thus be useful for the general reader and for
thoughtful couples who are contemplating reproductive technological
intervention, as well as for general mental health professionals. A
thorough author and subject index completes this practical, useful
volume that will serve as a valuable reference work for its wisdom,
guidance, and honesty."
—The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease"...this book is written
for a general audience, mental health clinicians of all levels of
experience will be engaged by the case discussions, whether or not
they work directly with patients who struggle with infertility. For
clinicians who do work directly in the field of reproductive
medicine or for advanced psychotherapists who have patients
undergoing treatment for infertility, Frozen Dreams is a
must-read."
—Clinical Social Work Journal"The book implicitly poses questions
about what it means to be a parent and about the implications, if
any, of an individual's capacity to procreate....the great strength
of this book is in prompting us to think about the ways that the
families we make are inextricably bound up with the society we
(can) make."
—Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
"Frozen Dreams" is the most honest and useful book to date on the
subject of the emotional dimensions of infertility and assisted
reproductive technology. The book is remarkably jargon free and
accessible, and will thus be useful for the general reader and for
the thoughtful couples who are contemplating reproductive
technological intervention, as well as for general mental health
professionals. A thorough author and subject index completes this
practical, useful volume that will serve as a valuable reference
work for its wisdom, guidance, and honesty."- The Journal of
Nervous and Mental Disease"[T]his book is written for a general
audience, mental health clinicians of all levels of experience will
be engaged by the case discussions, whether or not they work
directly with patients who struggle with infertility. For
clinicians who do work directly in the field of reproductive
medicine or for advanced psychotherapists who have patients
undergoing treatment for infertility, Frozen Dreams is a
must-read."- Clinical Social Work Journal
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