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Abstract

This qualitative study explores how women understand and make sense of a miscarriage following fertility struggles and fertility treatment through the stories they share. The study employed a narrative inquiry to further understand how each of these stories were situated within wider socio-cultural discourses. A narrative semi-structured interview was conducted with six women who experienced a miscarriage amidst their fertility journeys. The interview data was analysed using a six stage Critical Narrative Analysis (CNA) that identified narrative tone, rhetoric function and creation of identities within each narrative. Further, CNA resulted in three overarching themes across all six narratives: recognising naivety in retrospect, experiencing connection and disenfranchised grief. Each of the themes were then destabilised through a hermeneutic lens of trauma and critical engagement with the feminist theory. The findings are discussed in light of existing theory, followed by implications for Counselling Psychology theory and practice, and subsequent suggestions of avenues for future research.

Publication Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Departments:	School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Psychology School of Health & Psychological Sciences > School of Health & Psychological Sciences Doctoral Theses Doctoral Theses

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