title: Relational typologies in couples suffering from psychogenic infertility.
abstract: The couple is observed within a large network in which the wider family, friends, work and society are included. These individuals find a great difficulty in establishing well-grounded and authentic interpersonal relationships swinging between the desire of omnipotent self-sufficiency and the contrasted and suffered need for dependence. The third one, the child absent in their real existence, seems to be excluded also from relational possibilities. The quality of the couple relationship, the acceptance of treatments and of their possible failures is determined anyway by the balance and the harmony which existed before the stressing event (diagnosis). Very often, the failure of various therapeutic treatments is caused by a preexisting disagreement within those couples, who believed to solve their problems with a pregnancy.
authors: Ospedale San Sebastiano, Frascati, Rome, Italy.
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Ferrio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002965:Classification; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007246:Infertility / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D012649:Self Concept