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Too often women’s illnesses, concerns, and issues have been overlooked, minimized, and not infrequently blamed on them. Unfortunately, the area of pregnancy loss falls in this category of social history. Until recently, women who had lost a pregnancy were told that it was all for the best, that they had not lost anything of significance. Most horrifying, the classic psychoanalytic literature, when it addressed the issue at all, maintained that pregnancy loss was a physical expression of the mother’s negative or ambivalent feelings about her femininity or about being a mother.
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Friedman, R. (1993). Coping with Pregnancy Loss: Ectopic Pregnancy, Recurrent Abortion, and Stillbirth. In: Seibel, M.M., Bernstein, J. (eds) Technology and Infertility. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9205-7_30
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