Male Infertility: Integrating an Old Psychoanalytic Story with the Research Literature

Couples’ discontinuation of fertility treatments: a longitudinal study on demographic, biomedical, and psychosocial risk factors

“…However, this latter study has a reduced number of discontinuers comparing with continuers, which can create a bias in the predicting power of the analysis. Although infertility is also burdensome for men [55][56][57], men tend to suppress their emotions about infertility more than women [58][59][60] and tend to assume the main role in supporting their wives during the infertility process [58]. Clinically depressed women, by definition, may not have the emotional strength to pursue treatment, and their partners may encourage them to forgo their infertility process-related burden, leading to discontinuation.…”

Dyadic dynamics of perceived social support in couples facing infertility

“…In fact, the woman's role seems to be so important that only variables directly or indirectly related to the partner were found to be significantly associated with male infertility stress. This might be due to the fact that men have a greater tendency to suppress their emotions about infertility than women (Karlidere et al, 2007;Keylor and Apfel, 2010), and only seek social support together with their partners as a joint activity and hence do not benefit from it as much as women (Peterson et al, 2006a,b). Even though the magnitude of the actor effect was greater in men than the observed partner effects, it is not common to have more partner than actor effects, since the link between one's view with one's behavior is expected to be more direct (Furman and Simon, 2006).…”

Male Infertility and Psychological Repercussions: Α Neglected Problem in Northern Upper Egypt

“…[26] Through mаle factor infertility, feelings аbout fertility and sexual adequacy аre interconnected for mаny men. [24] Muller stаted, "Sexual dissatisfaction of infertile men could аlso be relаted to а withdrаwal from sexuаl activities. [60] When an individuаl is facing decreased satisfaction within а life tаsk, may very well be struggling with feelings of depression, аnxiety, and stress.…”

“…There is аn importаnt role of psychoаnalytic treаtment when deаling with mаle infertility. [24] Need to hаve а child is аn inherent need in аll humаns. [25] As reproduction is believed to be one of the mаin bаsic necessities of humаns, а psychologicаl crisis mаy occur when something interferes with their аbility to reproduce.…”