ABSTRACT
Specialists in psychosomatics and psychoanalysis stress that, at least in some cases, the unexplained infertility must be seen as a physiological protective reaction. One cannot avoid considering the fact that unexplained infertility might be a protective reaction if one wants to treat such a disease intelligently. Other options in therapy are possible: considering unexplained infertility as a protective reaction can help to avoid defining the aim of therapy solely as the birth of a child, but to reduce the stress. In practice: Instead of intervening immediately, one could recommend a holiday or relaxation measures, which are – by the way – the most effective treatments in the case of unexplained infertility. Statistics show that the number of pregnancies after a holiday or during breaks in treatment is many times higher than the success rate of reproductive medicine.
