Psychoanalytical Approach of the Infertility, which is not medically explained: A case study based on two projective tests (Rorschach and TAT)

Abstract

This study aims, from the psychoanalytic dynamic approach, to understand the psychopathological functioning of sterile women. We have tried to deepen, the explanation of the psychogenic sterility, from a rather important research group, which will follow our results already published in previous publications, on the psychopathological organizations underlying psychogenic sterility. This is a clinical study based on the case study. The research group is made up of 32 sterile women. The means used are: clinical interview and projective techniques (TAT and Rorschach).

The analysis of the data shows the fragility of psychic functioning in sterile women; marked by a lack of flexibility in defensive elaborations; but above all it confirmed that behind the symptom of infertility lies a story specific to each woman and a suffering that can only be expressed in a particular context of the clinic