By Juliet Miller
During this ebook, a exotic variety of participants, together with novelist Hilary Mantel and Germaine Greer, study the event of infertility from either female and male views, the mental elements of infertility analysis and therapy, and the customarily radical and unforeseen results on kinship.
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Extra resources for Inconceivable Conceptions: Psychological Aspects of infertility and Reproductive Technology
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For me the long chronicles of test and experiment, trial and failure, hopes raised and dashed, had produced multiple disappointments but nothing like the depth of feeling Elizabeth suffered. Where I had only to be patient she had to be committed. Where I needed adaptability she needed resilience. It was enough if I was determined: she had to be endlessly brave. Our life had to be ruled by the prospects of pregnancy. It dominated our conversation, our planning and of course our sexual behaviour.
I’m OK’, gloats a virile man whose partner is having fertility treatment. ‘The eggs did fertilise in the dish [in vitro]. ’ Thus, if new reproductive techniques offer hope where barrenness has resided, their positive aspects are also fraught with conflict. It seems that science fiction technological interventions, taking place not ‘out there’ but actually lived out in the innermost space of a woman’s body and the inner sanctum of a couple’s home, resuscitate archaic unconscious puzzlement about where babies come from and wild theories of how they are made.
As the wounds healed over we found ourselves commissioned to write a Penguin book on the subject (Bryan and Higgins 1995), and being invited together to talk about ‘Coping with Childlessness’. We have done this from Hammersmith to Sydney and Auckland. As various parents we know run into various forms of trouble, we are prone to say that childlessness is becoming somewhat easier. Incidentally neither of us felt we needed psychotherapy either during or after this episode although we might well have sought counselling had we not been receiving a lot of support and understanding from friends and colleagues in that world.