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100	1	0	_aPandoula-Kafchitsas, Georgia _eauthor
700	1	0	_a Grann, Line Mai _eauthor
245	0	0	_aMaternity Phantasies in Organ Transplantations
260			_c2010.
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520			_aHealth practitioners working with organ transplantations are familiar with the immense psychological effort that donors and receivers must accomplish to mentalize and “humanize” the experience. The article focuses on a particular type of psychological mechanism, common among these patients: the elaboration of maternity phantasies. Indeed, psychological practice in this domain often reveals phantasies of parenthood, maternity, and pregnancy. In order to further investigate the phenomenon, we have compared our experiences with living kidney donors (within the family) and receivers of liver transplants (postmortem donors) and have chosen four case illustrations. Many donors seem to invest the graft—and/or by analogy the receiver—as their child. Receivers, on the other hand, often perceive the transplant as a pregnancy and the graft as a baby they have been given. In some patients these maternity phantasies give rise to a reactualization of the Oedipus complex: the wish to receive/give a child to a maternal or a paternal figure within a love relation.
690			_adonation
690			_apregnancy
690			_atransplantation
690			_amaternity
690			_areceiver
690			_apsychoanalysis
690			_aorgan
690			_adonator
690			_agraft
690			_aphantasies
786	0		_nCliniques méditerranéennes | o 81 | 1 | 2010-06-17 | p. 199-207 | 0762-7491
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-mediterraneennes-2010-1-page-199?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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