Psychosocial aspects of infertility: A review of current concepts
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Vol. 6 (3) , 157-164
- https://doi.org/10.3109/01674828709019419
Abstract
Clinical symptoms are viewed as neurotic not only because [they] persist in the absence. of a real [cause], but because [they] frequently interfere with adaptive functions [or goals] and result in unnecessary self-administered stress. Vicious-Circle Behaviour Horney, 1937Keywords
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