Meet a psychologist to treat infertility in Paris 9

Infertility issues often regularly fall within the field of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. Contrary to a belief that the treatment of infertility would be exclusively medico-surgical, most of the causes of infertility are most often treated within the framework of psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.

During the last study day “Psychoanalysis, Gynecology and Maternity”, I had the opportunity to present several clinical situations which highlight the importance of gynaecologists and psychoanalysts being able to coordinate, in Paris or elsewhere, to treat infertility.

Psychoanalysis, an effective therapy to treat infertility

In a clinical situation, a patient was unable to become pregnant even though her medical examinations were good and her gynaecologist found no reason to justify this impossibility. The patient then decided to meet a psychologist to treat her infertility and after a few months of psychotherapy, this patient fell pregnant naturally. For reasons of confidentiality, I cannot go into detail here about this psychotherapy to highlight what made it possible to resolve the cause of infertility here.

In another situation, the patient's medical tests were negative so that the gynaecologist refused the request for IVF while telling the patient that she would never be able to get pregnant again. Rather than referring this patient to meet a psychologist to treat infertility, the doctor invited her to find a psychologist to express her concern about her inability to conceive. But ultimately, instead of that, this patient resolved a certain number of difficulties thanks to her psychotherapy and she became pregnant naturally. Once again it is not possible to go further and in deep details of this treatment but I can point out, like many colleagues, that such paradoxical clinical situations are not isolated.

So, if there are indeed clinical situations where psychotherapy makes it possible to agonise about the desire for a child following a real impossibility of becoming pregnant, there are many other situations where negative medical results are interpreted too categorically, sometimes as permanent infertility, sometimes as requiring IVF and other invasive treatments that could be avoided.

Gynaecologists and psychoanalysts to treat infertility

All these clinical situations highlight the need for gynaecologists and psychoanalysts to work closely together to treat infertility problems.

To learn more about psychoanalysis and infertility

If you are interested in publishing the proceedings of the study day “ Psychoanalysis, Gynecology and Maternity”, you can request a copy from the secretariat of the Network for Psychoanalysis at the Hospital.

If you would like to meet a psychologist to treat infertility in Paris 9 , you can contact one of the RPH clinicians. If you would like to come visit me, you can contact me directly by telephone at 01-44-79-00-01 or make an appointment on Doctolib.

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