Commentary on Treatment of Infertile Couples Using Reproductive Technologies: A Complex Matrix |
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| Authors: | Joan Rankin |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 10545 Butterfield Road, Los Angeles, CA 90064, USA |
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| Abstract: | The impact of the reproductive technologies upon infertile couples who require them is both ubiquitous and profound. There
is a confluence of issues that co-exist for women and men who use reproductive technologies which creates a complex matrix
for both the analytically informed social work clinician and those seeking infertility treatment. The unique merger of life
stage issues, identity issues, cultural pressures, and responses to the physical and emotional demands of the necessary technologies,
serves to amplify the intensity of encounters in this analytic triad. Consideration of attachment theory while utilizing intersubjective
systems theory provides a system of treatment which offers comfort and a place to mourn the multiple losses of repetitive
failures of attempts to conceive.
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| Keywords: | Infertility Reproductive technologies Gender Grief and loss |
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