@article{ref1,
title="A psychological study, using interviews and projective tests, of patients seeking anonymous donor artificial insemination",
journal="Journal de gynécologie, obstétrique et biologie de la reproduction",
year="1990",
author="Van Thiel, M. and Mantadakis, E. and Vekemans, M. and Gillot de Vries, F.",
volume="19",
number="7",
pages="823-828",
abstract="A Thematic Aperception Test was used with 13 male and 16 female patients who were requesting A.I.D. The following main psychological reactions were found in women: anxiety and depression (fear of rejection by their family and friends; lowering the image of the husband--the donor being considered as a rival), aggression (the narcissistic woman &quot;demands&quot; A.I.D.; the donor is esteemed highly); mother is protective (&quot;true&quot; paternity comes through love of the child and the need to forget the donor). They found, in men: an inability to abandon fertility as lost (with denial of sterility); ambivalence, castration anxiety and a feeling of being excluded from the mother-child symbiosis with later acceptance of loss of fertility and (sometimes excessively) identification with the &quot;mother&quot;. Most subjects studied were not intending telling the child about his true origin; because disclosure would be tantamount to transgressing twice over the laws of paternity and the rules against Oedipus behaviour. There is often a great difference between the ways the partners view the matter and inter-relate. We strongly recommend that psychological advice should be taken before treatment with A.I.D. is started.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0368-2315",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}