1st Edition
Frozen Dreams Psychodynamic Dimensions of Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
I. The Psychological Burden of Infertility
1. Psychological Changes in Infertility Patients - Linda Hammer Burns
II. From the Therapist's Side
2. Therapist Anxiety about Motivation for Parenthood - Laura Josephs
3. When the Therapist Is Infertile - Nancy Freeman
4. The Therapist's Negative Preconceptions about Infertility Treatment - Linda D. Applegarth
5. Therapist Anger, Despair, Cynicism - Judith Kottick
6. Riding the Elephant in the Room: How I Use Countertransference in Couples Therapy - Todd Essig
7. From Infertility to Adoption - Ann F. Malav‚
III. Special Circumstances, Special Treatment Challenges
8, Treating Single Mothers by Choice - Elizabeth A. Grill
9. Miscarriage and Stillbirth - Sharon N. Covington
10. When the Patient Has Experienced Severe Trauma - Robert I. Watson Jr.
11. Extraordinary Circumstances: Termination of Three Pregnancies Conceived with Donated Oocytes - Shelley Lee and Frederick Licciardi
IV. Career Journals
12. The Nurse's Perspective in a Reproductive Program - Maria Jackson
13. Two Decades as an Infertility Therapist - Dorothy Greenfeld
Biography
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 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
