Psychopathologie et procréation médicalement assistée: Comment les couples infertiles élaborent-ils la demande d'enfant?

Abstract

Beside traditional medical indications of assistance to procreation, like extreme Fal- lopian tube sterility or sper- matic insufficiencies, new requests of children appear in situations of relative inferti- lity, related to age or close to margins of allowed social standards. However, the more the requests of assisted procreation emanate from extreme existential situa- tions, the more they seem to reveal fragile people; indeed, the psychopathological fact often appears in extreme cases of the social, biological or legal standards... thus the teams of procreation medical assistance are led to be cau- tious and submit these requests within a framework where the psychologist and the psychiatrist have their place.