[Psychometric studies on female patients during sterility counseling]

The application of the VNPI-test, i.e. neurosis screening, to 46 female patients attending consultations on sterility, is reported. For patients having normal genital organs, the test results indicated a neurotic personality at rate three times higher (52%) than for patients found to have pathological genitals (17%). This result is understood to confirm the opinion which, in addition to somatic causes, also accepts a psychogenic etiology of sterility. Therefore, the importance of early psychological investigation is pointed out, which should not start as late as once all somatic efforts have failed.