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Medical successes and couples' psychological problems in Assisted Reproduction Treatment: a Narrative Based Medicine approach
No full textObjective: 1) To explore the psychological processes that develop
in women and men during their first pregnancy obtained with
assisted reproduction treatment; 2) to individuate the main plot
that women and men use to recount their transition to parenthood.
Methods: A face-to-face semi-structured autobiographical
interview was administered. The interview was aimed to investigate
the story of pregnancy. Interviews were transcribed
verbatim and analyzed in order to merge principal themes.
Participants: 15 Italian couples waiting for the first child after
a conception with assisted reproductive technologies. Results:
Medically assisted pregnancy constitutes an extremely stressful,
highly medicalised experience, that the couple, however,
narrated according to a basic plot consisting in four phases:
doubt, final sentence, victory, monitoring. Conclusions: Results
suggest that physicians can benefit from knowing the phases
that infertile couples experience during pregnancy because
these can serve as a framework to use in monitoring their transition
to parenthood and in planning psychological support and
health interventions for them
Why Narrating Changes Memory: A Contribution to an Integrative Model of Memory and Narrative Processes
No full textThis paper aims to reflect on the relation between autobiographical memory (ME) and autobiographical narrative (NA), examining studies on the effects of narrating on the narrator and showing how studying these relations can make more comprehensible both memory’s and narrating’s way of working. Studies that address explicitly on ME and NA are scarce and touch this issue indirectly. Authors consider different trends of studies of ME and NA: congruency vs incongruency hypotheses on retrieving, the way of organizing memories according to gist or verbatim format and their role in organizing positive and negative emotional experiences, the social roots of ME and NA, the rules of conversation based on narrating. Analysis of investigations leads the Authors to point out three basic results of their research. Firstly, NA transforms ME because it narrativizes memories according to a narrative format. This means that memories, when are narrated, are transformed in stories (verbal language) and socialised. Secondly, the narrativization process is determined by the act of telling something within a communicative situation. Thus, relational situation of narrating act, by modifying the story, modifies also memories. The Authors propose the RE.NA.ME model (RElation, NArration, MEmory) to understand and study ME and NA. Finally, this study claims that ME and NA refer to two different types of processes having a wide area of overlapping. This is due to common social, developmental and cultural roots that make NA to include part of ME (narrative of memory) and ME to include part of NA (memory of personal events that have been narrated)
Practical and emotional experiences in the care path of tumoral illness: qualitative analysis of autobiographical narratives.
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Smorti, A L (Arthur Lionel), NX56003
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/418244Surname: SMORTI. Given Name(s) or Initials: A L (ARTHUR LIONEL). Military Service Number or Last Known Location: NX56003. Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War Enquiry Card Index Number: 18844.241701
Item: [2016.0049.50505] "Smorti, A L (Arthur Lionel), NX56003
Transition to parenthood in infertile couples
Full text linkPregnancy and parenting could be complex psychologically for infertile couples who conceived through Assisted Reproduction Treatment (ART). This study examines transition to parenthood of women and men during their first pregnancy obtained with ART. A face-to-face semi-structured interview was administered to 15 Italian couples waiting for the first child after a conception with ART. The interview, aimed to investigate the story of pregnancy, self-imagine as parents and the imagine of child, was analyzed in order to merge principal themes. Results: Medically assisted pregnancy constitutes an extremely stressful, highly medicalised experience, that the couple, however, narrated according to a basic plot consisting in four phases: doubt, final sentence, victory, monitoring. Results suggest need of psychological support and health intervention for infertile couples who conceived through ART
Sharing of emotional memories with a listener: Differences between adolescents and emerging adults
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