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Et si c'était dans la tête ? histoire et repré sentations de l'infertilité

par Cailleau, Françoise
Référence Cahiers de psychologie clinique, 26, 1, page (85-98)
Publication Publié, 2006-03

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Résumé :

Infertility has always been seen as a plague, a curse arousing both scientist's and charlatan's interest. Regarded as an exclusively female pathology, its etiology did generate many speculations. This symptom awakes the imaginary and create contrasted attitudes depending from the societies and times. In spite of remarkable scientific progress on this matter, the way patients talk about it still the heritage of the myths, the taboos and prohibition present in our unconscious collectives. Through the clinical history of Ariane, we will see the irrational allows a mythological construction which defines and protects the patient's identity.