[Maternity desire in patients undergoing assisted reproduction treatment at a public health institution]. / El deseo de maternidad en pacientes sujetas a tratamientos de reproducción asistida en una institución de salud pública.

The main purpose of this investigation was to define how different psychic representations of the desire for maternity have determined the decision of a group of patients to be under complicated reproductive treatments such as in vitro fertilization. A hundred patients who wanted to be under Assisted Human Reproduction (AHR) treatments in a public health institution were interviewed. Ten of them were selected to be studied in depth. The methodology employed was interpretative on a grounded theory design. Although this analysis included many factors, such as gender, family pressures, medical institution and side effects of this treatment, the two constant predominanting factors were narcisistic personality and the imaginary child.