title: Pregnancy during analysis--help or hindrance?
abstract: This paper challenge the technical precept that during pregnancy a woman is less accessible to analytic treatment. The precept, which originated more than fifty years ago, has remained with us despite significant changes in our knowledge about pregnancy; despite fundamental changes in analytic theory with attendant changes in technique; and despite a large body of clinical evidence to which this paper contributes further information from four analytic cases. All of these developments support the view that pregnancy is not a contraindication for analysis but, on the contrary, can facilitate analytic progress.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldberger
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005260:Female; D005619:Freudian Theory; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011247:Pregnancy / Q000523:psychology*; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*