Pines, D. (1990). Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Abortion. A Psychoanalytic Perspective. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 71:301-307.

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(1990). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 71:301-307

Pregnancy, Miscarriage and Abortion. A Psychoanalytic Perspective

Dinora Pines Author Information

Despite a growing interest in the psychoanalytical understanding of pregnancy there is as yet no literature regarding spontaneous abortion or miscarriage, although some attention has been paid to planned abortion. Analysis of women patients who have miscarried often reveals their sense of loss, prolonged grief and unresolved mourning many years after this event. Analysis of these women frequently reveals a longstanding depression, a loss of self-esteem and hatred of their female bodies which do not bear live children as their mothers did. Their self-representation is damaged.

In this presentation I shall discuss miscarriage, i.e. spontaneous abortion, and planned abortion, their psychological antecedents and consequences. In both situations young women become pregnant, enter a normal further developmental stage of the life cycle but are unable to continue their pregnancy to become mothers and bring a live child into the world. Thus spontaneous abortion is frequently a thre

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