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  • Title: [Affective investment, identification and their impact on therapeutic abortion (author's transl)].
    Author: Aussilloux MT, Mattauer B, Peyrot D, Viala JL.
    Journal: Contracept Fertil Sex (Paris); 1983 Jan; 11(1):29-31. PubMed ID: 12311956.
    Abstract:
    The family and educational background of women requesting therapeutic abortion was analyzed to assess its impact on the women's behavior. The woman's father was deceased in 14 cases, the mother was deceased in 1 case, both parents were deceased in 3 cases, the parents were divorced in 21 cases, they suffered severe marital discord in 20 cases, and in 10 cases the woman was illegitimate. 84.12% of the women were raised by both parents, .43% by the father, 7.30% by the mother, 2.58% by another relative, 3.43% by an institution, and .86% by an unrelated person. In 63.09% of cases there was no social disorganization. Of the remaining 36.91%, 4.72% suffered a death, 10.73% a divorce, 1.29% abandonment, 15.49% chronic conjugal conflict, 3.43% difficulty in school, and 3.0% geographic and social instability. 49.36% of the women felt that their parents had no apparent problems as a couple, 23.18% felt they had conflicts but were a solid couple, 10.30% felt their divorced parents had a poor relationship, and 13.3% felt their parents should have separated because of their poor relationship. Clinical analysis indicates that 48.93% of the parental couples had good relationships but 49.79% had defective relationships. 54.94% of the women had good relationships with their parents, 5.58% were unable to separate themselves from their parents normally, and 37.77% had conflicts. 47.24% viewed their mothers as possessive, rejecting, or dominating and 43.78% viewed their fathers in similar terms. Continuing dependency predominates among women with poor relationships with their mothers. Immaturity and inability to anticipate are common. Aggressivity toward the mother may be repressed or expressed, and is frequently translated on the conscious level to sexual anxiety. Difficulties in identifying with a female and maternal model result from such relationships. Defective relations with the father are often expressed in conflict. In the case of absent fathers, the difficulties are more profound and the woman may search for a father in her relationships with men or have relatively unsatisfying sexual relations. Feelings of ambivalence about pregnancy appear to be closely tied to parental images that are perceived as defective and especially to modalities of internalization of the female role. Understanding of unconscious phenomena can aid in understanding the distress often experienced in the process of pregnancy termination.
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