TY - BOOK AU - Bouchard,Alexandra AU - Cohen de Lara,Aline TI - Mothers who Demand C-Sections – What are the Stakes at Play for Women? PY - 2016///. N1 - 6 N2 - The authors of this article have noticed that, both in medicalliterature as in clinical practice, there are increasing numbers ofnon-essential C-sections being performed at the mother’s requestfor the birth of a first baby. They adopt a psychoanalytical stanceas a means of exploring the desires and defence mechanisms atplay in motivating such demands, and they articulate the questionof giving birth with that of being a woman. They offer a description of the processes which have led them to speculate on thefollowing question – does the desire to avoid the sexual dimension of giving birth lie at the origin of a request on the part ofsome women to give birth via a C-section? UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-corps-et-psychisme-2016-1-page-59?lang=en ER -