How to Become Your Own Best Infertility Counselor Helping You Understand Your Struggle; Deciding What's Best for You and Educating Others to Accept Your Choice

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"Joyce Sutkamp Friedeman knows the frustration, guilt, sadness & inadequacy that accompany the inability to have children. The Ph.D. counselor has written a book to help other couples cope with & come to terms with the challenges, emotions & obstacles of infertility. HOW TO BECOME YOUR OWN BEST FERTILITY COUNSELOR (Jolance Press, $8.95) is an outgrowth of Friedeman's 15-year personal experience with infertility & her 16-year work as a counselor & psychiatric nurse who specializes in helping couples cope with infertility. "Infertility is such a struggle, & it's hard for fertile people to understand how tough it is," says Friedeman, who also works as psychological consultant to the Greater Cincinnati Institute for Reproductive Health at Christ Hospital. Friedeman's book helps infertile women & men understand the same feelings of guilt, disappointment, depression, sadness, grief & emptiness that many infertile couples face. Spelling out & explaining those feelings is one of the goals of the book, she says, "so that people feel validated & feel that they're not going crazy & understand the stress, grieving & frustration goes with the territory." She also offers tips, advice, personal exercises & self-assessments to help couples cope with a childless future."--TEMPO, Aug. 9, 1995. "Her reference list is a very good guide for additional reading on infertility, empowerment, grieving, adoption & child-free lifestyles. I highly recommend this book to all those involved in the infertility community, be they physicians, nurses, therapists, friends & family of infertility patients, or the infertile themselves."--RESOLVE of Greater San Diego, Summer, 1995. To order: Jolance Press, 259 Riverside Pkwy., Ft. Thomas, KY 41075-1144 or 606-781-4881 or The Distributors, South Bend, IN.