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Seesaw Response of a Young Unmarried Couple to Therapeutic Abortion
Judith Wallerstein, MSW;
Marion Bar-Din, MSW
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1972;27(2):251-254.
Abstract
The seesaw response of a young unmarried couple to a therapeutic abortion is reported. Initially during the year and a half following the abortion, the young woman was essentially symptom-free while the young man went through a severe psychological illness. The sequence of events seemed, remarkably, to recapitulate (in anniversary timing) the major events of conception, abortion, and expected delivery. It was when the young man had recovered that the young woman, in turn, became overtly disturbed and sought help 18 months after the abortion. Both the psychodynamic meanings in this interplay of stress responses and the implications for improved abortion counseling are adumbrated.
Author Affiliations
Berkeley, Calif
From the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley. Mrs. Bar-Din is a psychiatric social worker at Home Health and Counseling, Richmond, Calif.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Feb 14, 1972.
Reprint requests to School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Calif 94720 (Mrs. Wallerstein).
THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES
Psychosocial Sequelae of Therapeutic Abortion in Young Unmarried Women
Wallerstein et al.
Arch Gen Psychiatry 1972;27:828-832.
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