title: [Maternity desire in patients undergoing assisted reproduction treatment at a public health institution].
abstract: The main purpose of this investigation was to define how different psychic representations of the desire for maternity have determined the decision of a group of patients to be under complicated reproductive treatments such as in vitro fertilization. A hundred patients who wanted to be under Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) treatments in a public health institution were interviewed. Ten of them were selected to be studied in depth. The methodology employed was interpretative on a grounded theory design. Although this analysis included many factors, such as gender, family pressures, medical institution and side effects of this treatment, the two constant predominanting factors were narcisistic personality and the imaginary child.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Biología de la Reproducción Humana del Centro Médico Nacional 20 de Noviembre, ISSSTE.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Arranz Lara
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blum Grymberg
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Sauceda González
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gutiérrez Amezcua
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006268:Health Facilities; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D011634:Public Health; D012099:Reproductive Techniques / Q000523:psychology*