France Summary Learning of one s infertility can often generate depression and lack of sexual desire. Work-ups and treatments can interfere with the couple s intimacy, and the body image of each partner. Sometimes the final arrival of a child cannot completely repair felt psychological failure.
Infertility can threaten adult status and sexual identity.
Achieving a pregnancy becomes the sole aim for the couple and the medical team. But in fact, psychosomatic disorders may disturb the pregnancy, when the couple is looking for an imaginary child, to resolve other problems. The real child may then generate an additional adaptation in the couple that is still deeply disturbed by the infertility. The semen needed for a spermiogram should be collected by masturbation which can be disturbing to infertility patients. Men may have an erection failure at this time.