title: [Menopause: can a new myth replace an old one?].
abstract: The menopause was considered in the past as a critical age during which women who no more can procreate stop being a real female. Actually it is estimated as a situation of hormonal deficiency which should be heated with the well-known. But limitation of this period to exclusive hormonal went seems reducing. At the menopause women have to manage the bereaving a part of their peculiar identity, the real and imaginary fertility. That needs a mental reorganization which may be difficult to be faced and may be in origin of neurosis and various somatic events. Therapeutics are now able to approach this period in comfortable conditions as well on the somatic than the functional level. But it is undeniable that during the consultation something else than only the hormonal aspects of the woman's story is getting in stage.
authors.affiliation: CMSF - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Grenoble.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lebreton
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000375:Aging / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D015914:Estrogen Replacement Therapy; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007063:Identity Crisis; D008593:Menopause / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D009229:Mythology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D012649:Self Concept; D013240:Stereotyping
vernacular_title: Ménopause: un mythe en remplace-t-il un autre?