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Management of Patients with Preexisting Psychiatric Illness

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Technology and Infertility

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How do we deal with infertility protocols for patients with preexisting mental illness? What are the psychodynamic issues of disappointment, loss, the limits of trying, failed grandiosity, or the meaning of a baby? What is the relationship between infertility protocols and medication for the chronically medicated, mentally ill patient who wants to become pregnant? These are very big problems. They are also problems that, strikingly, almost no one knows anything about.

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  1. Harvard Medical School, USA

    Machelle M. Seibel M.D.

  2. Faulkner Centre for Reproductive Medicine, Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA, 02130, USA

    Machelle M. Seibel M.D.  & Judith Bernstein R.N., M.S.  & 

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Fisher, S.M. (1993). Management of Patients with Preexisting Psychiatric Illness. In: Seibel, M.M., Bernstein, J. (eds) Technology and Infertility. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9205-7_34

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