书目名称 | Infertility | 副标题 | Perspectives from St | 编辑 | Annette L. Stanton,Christine Dunkel-Schetter | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Springer Series on Stress and Coping | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | As a researcher whose work focuses largely on the causes and conse quences of unwanted pregnancy, I may appear to be an unlikely candidate to write a foreword to a book on infertility. Yet, many of the themes that emerge in the study of unwanted pregnancy are also apparent in the study of infertility. Moreover, this volume is an important contribution to the literature on fertility, women‘s health issues, and health psychology in general, all topics with which I have been closely involved over the past two decades. Neither pregnancy nor its absence is inherently desirable: The occurrence of a pregnancy can be met with joy or despair, and its absence can be a cause of relief or anguish. Whether or not these states are wanted, the conscious and unconscious meanings attached to pregnancy and in fertility, the responses of others, the perceived implications of these states, and one‘s expectations for the future all are critical factors in determining an individual‘s response. In addition, both unwanted pregnancy and failure to conceive can be socially stigmatized, evoking both overt and subtle social disapproval. Fur ther, they involve not only the woman, but her partner, and potent | 出版日期 | Book 1991 | 关键词 | Motivation; diagnosis; intervention; psychological intervention; psychology; sexual behaviour | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0753-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4899-0755-4 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4899-0753-0 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991 |
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