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- Table on contents Foreword
- Chapter 1
- Becoming a mother: psychological initiation experience
- “It’s hard to get through”
- Difference between patient and client
- “Don’t see any obstacles”
- “It’s hard to get through”: commentary
- “It is hard to get through”: post scriptum
- Infertility reasons: psychological and medical points of view
- Women’s bodies, women’s wisdom
- Childbirth as initiation
- Initiation in fairy-tales
- Chapter 2
- Male factor
- Male infertility
- Women who love too much
- “Kittens”
- In fine font
- “Kittens”: commentary
- “Receive the package earlier”
- “Receive the package earlier”: commentary
- “Rice on the inside of a pot”
- “Rice on the inside of a pot”: commentary
- “Rice on the inside of a pot”: post scriptum
- “Motionless sperm”
- Chapter 3
- Mal (e) practice
- Cosmos means order
- Eggs on credit
- “Jumble”
- “Jumble”: commentary
- Violating boundaries
- “Jumble”: post scriptum
- How about a kiss?
- Chapter 4
- Saving oneself is one’s own business
- Responsibility and conception
- Risk factors
- Leo Tolstoy’s heroines and their attitude towards motherhood
- Liza Bolkonskaya: dying in labor
- “Temporary difficulties”
- “Temporary difficulties”: commentary
- “Temporary difficulties”: post scriptum
- Kitty Levina giving birth
- Profane and sacred
- “Circle made of colored paper”
- Chapter 5
- Why medicine does not help me?
- Medical approach to infertility
- Medical lingo
- “A word can kill”
- “Drawing of an apple”
- The ultimate truth
- How should infertility be treated?
- My story: “Cold feet”
- Escalation of symptom
- Chapter 6
- Psychotherapy as an alternative to medicine
- How does psychotherapy work
- “She is bound, but he has an option”
- “She is bound, but he has an option”: commentary
- “She is bound, but he has an option”: post scriptum
- The way I hear it, of translation from Martian
- The method of Socrates irony
- “Rubbish in the head”
- “Rubbish in the head”: commentary
- “The circumstances are such, that there is no opportunity”
- Chapter 7
- To give birth or not to give birth
- Doubts should be voiced
- Is being a mother worth the suffering?
- “Wasted tickets”
- To name the beast
- “Mother’s call”
- Chapter 8
- Mother’s curse or mother’s blessing?
- “Useless achievement of the ancestors”
- “Useless achievement of the ancestors”: commentary
- “Useless achievement of the ancestors”: post scriptum
- Curse and blessing
- “Having children is scary”
- “Having children is scary!”: commentary
- “Having children is scary”: post scriptum
- “Higher power”
- “Higher Power”: commentary
- “I planned you”
- “I planned you”: commentary
- “Reconcile the antagonists”
- “Reconcile the antagonists”: commentary
- “Reconcile the antagonists”: post scriptum
- “I wish I gave birth instead of you”
- “I wish I gave birth instead of you”: commentary
- “Hug stronger — let go — get off”
- My personal story
- Story of my daughter
- “I wish I gave birth instead of you”: post scriptum
- Chapter 9
- Infertile couple is two people!
- “Delegate the responsibility”
- “Delegate the responsibility”: commentary
- “Synchrony”
- “Synchrony”: commentary
- “Two dogs”
- “Two dogs”: commentary
- Chapter 10
- Sterile flowers
- Leo Tolstoy again
- “No feelings”
- “No feelings”: commentary
- My doubts
- “No feelings”: post scriptum
- “Late child”
- “Late child”: commentary
- “Afraid to have a baby with Down syndrome”
- God does not make mistakes
- “Afraid to have a baby with Down syndrome”: commentary
- “Afraid to have a baby with Down syndrome”: post scriptum
- “Shock trauma: consequences of violence”
- “Shock trauma: consequences of violence”: commentary
- “It’s been ten years”
- “It’s been ten years”: commentary
- Chapter 11
- Restoring the essence
- Milton Erickson: “Shock therapy”
- “Shock therapy”: commentary
- “Waking up the libido”
- “Waking up the libido”: commentary
- Revolt of the kittens
- “Young husband”
- “Young husband”: commentary
- Chapter 12
- Limitations give birth to new opportunities
- The mind knows, the body won’t allow it
- Fairytale “Snow Maden”
- Crisis of the middle of life
- “Bridge”
- “Bridge”: commentary
- What to fill one’s life with?
- “Give me a sign”
- “Give me a sign”: commentary
- Ability to childbearing as a metaphor