title: Related issues in childbearing and work: two clinical studies of professional women.
abstract: A common structure is described in two women's experience in central aspects of their professions and in their thoughts and feelings about motherhood. For example, a scientist's fascination in experimentation with cells in developing embryos is linked with wishes to experiment with the fertility of her own body, and an artist describes connections between the conflicts in finishing and showing her paintings and the conflicts in allowing her infant to separate from her body in the birth process. Historical clinical material from once-weekly psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy is used to trace some of the dynamics common to the major themes.
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D002321:Career Choice; D003657:Decision Making; D004651:Employment; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007743:Labor, Obstetric; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011247:Pregnancy; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012649:Self Concept; D014930:Women