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Femaleness, Fecundity and their Psychic Reach with Rosemary Balsam, MD

Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch

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The Tsunamic Experience of Pregnancy and Giving Birth

There's a lack of understanding of what a Tsunamic experience the whole notion of pregnancy and giving birth has been to most women. People don't tend to even ask somebody And this is 50 percent of the population After all, uh, and most people I think 80 some percent of people Uh, fairly recently women have had children. So that a lot of issues of body image change have gone on with somebody who's post delivery.

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