Control Data for Evaluating the Efficacy of Psychotherapy in Habitual Spontaneous Abortion

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Abstract
A spontaneous abortion is usually defined as the involuntary expulsion of the foetus before it is of viable age. A woman who has had three consecutive spontaneous abortions is called an habitual spontaneous aborter. The probability that a woman will abort a current pregnancy I call her abortion-probability. In the course of some uncontrolled studies it has been claimed that this probability can be reduced by psychotherapeutic means. For instance, Javert (1957) reported that, using an eclectic treatment, live births resulted from 81.2 per cent. of 154 pregnancies of women who had been habitual aborters. He attributed his success to the psychotherapeutic aspects of his regime.

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