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Marotta, Susanna | Foti, Valentina

Essere coppia in-fertile : la riscoperta della vitalità come fattore terapeutico

2023 - Franco Angeli

79-91 p.

  • Questo articolo si focalizza sulla possibilità di riscoprire la vitalità come fattore terapeutico per la coppia che vive la problematica dell'infertilità. La letteratura pre-sente sulla tematica mette in evidenza le conseguenze sul piano emotivo, relazionale e sessuale che l'infertilità comporta. L'obiettivo delle autrici è quello di affermare la necessità di supporto psicologico sin dagli albori della problematica, al fine di pre-servare il singolo e la coppia da rischi psicopatologici o da fratture relazionali insa-nabili, nonché aiutare la coppia ad affrontare il possibile percorso di procreazione medicalmente assistita. Nell'articolo verrà sottolineata l'importanza di riscoprire la vitalità della coppia infertile, attraverso un buon lavoro terapeutico sullo sfondo, sostenendo la funzione-personalità e la funzione-es, nonché potenziando il senso di agency e di efficacia. [Testo dell'editore].
  • This article is focused on the possibility of rediscovering vitality as a therapeutic factor for couples experiencing infertility problems. According to a Gestalt reading, the phenomenology of the infertile couple is the image of a blurred photograph, in the figure the repressed desire with all its consequences, in the background some-thing that was there but is now impossible to see. The infertile couple always seems to repeat the same movements: monotonous, cyclical, and prescribed, dictated by the unexpressed generative desire. This does not allow for a momentum towards novelty, towards a creative movement that can support the beauty of the background and re-discover a new vitality in being a couple, regardless of infertility. The literature on the subject highlights the consequences of infertility on an emotional, relational, and sexual level.
  • Anxiety, depression, severe stress, sexual dysfunction, frustration, iso-lation are just some of the outcomes that infertility could produce. The authors' goal is to affirm the need for psychological support, since the dawn of the problem, in order to preserve the individual and the couple from psychopathological risks or in-curable relational fractures, focusing the therapeutic work on the couple's ability to recreate, thanks to the possibility of reconstructing the contact boundary, a new, creative, spontaneous and vital way of meeting, with the confidence of being able to stand in pain in the figure, and the certainty of being able to cling to a safe back-ground.
  • A good therapeutic work can help the couple to face the diagnostic path and the medically assisted procreation treatments, a very delicate and painful phase for the couple, both physically and emotionally. The article is underlined the importance of rediscovering the vitality of the infertile couple, through good therapeutic work in the background, supporting the personality function and unlocking the id function, as well as enhancing the sense of agency and effectiveness. The rediscovery of the vital impulse could represent a profitable therapeutic factor both to face the problem in a new way and to create new energy understood as a push towards change and growth. [Publisher's text].

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