Psychogenic factors in some genetic and non-genetic forms of infertility

Five categories of patients suffering from different genetic and non-genetic forms of infertility and three categories of similarly affected, but potentially fertile, clinically normal individuals were studied. The Eysenck's Personality Inventory (1964), Ryle's Marital Patterns Test (1966) and Leckie and Wither's Inventory for Depressive Illness (1967) were used to determine the role played by psychogenic factors in causing infertility. No significant quantitative or qualitative differences were observed in the various groups studied. The psychogenic disturbances present in these individuals appear to be the result of the effect of persisting infertility rather than the cause of it.