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Published on: October 28, 2020
[The other side of the ART, or when the desire takes shape]
C Vacher Vitasse1, K Rouget, C Hocké
126, rue Borie, 33300 Bordeaux, France. catvachervit@free.fr
Objective:
To study unconscious factors involved with the occurrence of spontaneous pregnancies in Assisted Reproductive Technologies process (ART).
Patients And Methods:
We wrote to 519 couples having received the benefit of an ART process in the years 2005-2007 in the center of ART of the CHU of Bordeaux. In the mail, they were asked whether a spontaneous pregnancy had occurred during the process and a psychoanalytical orientation talk was suggested to them.
Results:
Among 214 answers, 28 couples have declared a spontaneous pregnancy (so 13.1%). Twenty-six couples have been interviewed, 19 resulting from the questionnaire and seven registered in 2008 and having announced by their own the occurrence of a spontaneous pregnancy. Subjective factors directing the occurrence of a spontaneous pregnancy are found up to a significant degree. They are classified and studied by headings.
Discussion And Conclusion:
Each heading is confronted with the data of the psychoanalytical literature. We find a correlation between the elements collected in the talks and those of the literature. The conclusion is in favor of unconscious factors playing a predominant part in the occurrence of spontaneous pregnancies for the unfertile subjects.
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