[The infertile couple: between biology and psyche].
In this paper, we tried to show through some clinical examples that there is not on the one side the body, and on the other the psyche. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART), because the field it covers, namely procreation, is a magnificent observatory of interactions between body and psyche, desire and inhibition, request and mental block, hatred and love… Assisted reproduction techniques are often indicative of links between these terms, and of what symbols are at stake in the couples concerned. It is interesting to see how these sophisticated techniques not only work as a solution to infertility problems -which are plural and diverse- but as a developer of human problems that we previously thought we would escape.
Service de gynécologie-obstétrique, CECOS, hôpital Tenon, AP-HP, 4, rue de la Chine, 75020 Paris, France. charlotte_dudkiewicz@hotmail.fr
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D000328:Adult; D004624:Embryo Transfer; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D005313:Fetal Death; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000523:psychology