[Habitual abortions: psychogenic and/or induced psychopathology]

Infertility is felt nowadays as a personal affront, quite intolerable, and RSA are an emblematic example of that personal and social failure, failure of the woman and of the couple, failure of the doctor too, failure of their common project. No wonder if those recurrences open the way to the problem of cause and/or consequences for those women whose pregnancy regularly begins and as regularly sees its evolution thwarted. The hypothesis of a psychological factor not excluding but rather potentialising a somatic one, should work as an incentive to important predictive studies, the best means for prevention. Whatever our present medical possibilities, the emphasis should always be on attentive listening and counselling, so as to mingle in judicious harmony "hightech" science and "tender love and care".