title: [What does a thorough personality questionnaire, the MMPI-2, tell us about psychological aspects of recurrent miscarriage?].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Try to analyse the experience of couples undergoing repeated miscarriages by answering the following questions: what can we learn from these men and women who suffered from repeated miscarriages?
  
  
  METHODS
  A thorough personality questionnaire, the MMPI-2, presented to 50 couples who have had repeated miscarriages.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Through a hierarchical classification, different profiles appear in the men's group as well as in the women's group, revealing a somatization of psychological suffering. It is also revealing acute defensive personality profiles showing restricted affects in a lot of these men whose partners have suffered from multiple procreation failures. Such a narrower range of emotions can be a cause of additional pain for their partner and for themselves.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We can therefore establish that, in these circumstances, the medical and/or psychological treatment should include both couple members to improve the marital adjustment and ease the couple towards another pregnancy which is always apprehended with the fear of another failure. A few etiological hypothesis may be evoked.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'AMP, CHI Poissy-Saint-Germain, 10, rue du Champ-Gaillard, 78300 Poissy, France. mojaoul@noos.fr
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jaoul
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ozon
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Marx de Fossey
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Riazuelo
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Molina Gomes
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chudzic
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wainer
mesh_terms: D000026:Abortion, Habitual / Q000523:psychology*; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D012737:Sex Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology