Effect of artificial insemination with donor semen on the psyche of the husband.
It has been argued that artificial insemination with donor semen (AID) can be detrimental to the psyche of the sterile husband. This issue has been scrutinized on a larger scale empirical basis using four groups of husbands whose wives were either pregnant due to AID or were under AID without being pregnant yet or were pregnant without AID or were assumedly fertile without being pregnant. Psychometric data was obtained of the corresponding husbands. The results indicate that AID is no threat to the husbands of all groups. Infertile men do not seem to be a psychological risk group. Fertile men tend to reject AID.
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Psychiatrische Universitätspoliklinik, Bern.
Maloigne-Katz
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Gigon
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D005220:Fathers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D007315:Insemination, Artificial / Q000523:psychology*; D007316:Insemination, Artificial, Heterologous / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D010556:Personality Tests; D011247:Pregnancy; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory