Blessures dans la filiation et infertilité masculine : étude comparative et psychodynamique Family events and male infertility: a comparative and psychological approach

The family history of a set of infertile men was the aim of the present study, through a filiation events grid based on a psychoanalytical approach. During the genetic counselling before ICIS procedure, the family chart was established and the filiation grid applied to a group of 30 infertile men requiring assisted reproductive procedures, as well as to a control group of 30 fertile men recruited in a maternity hospital after birth of their child. The filiation events differed significantly between two groups. It can be therefore assumed that difficulties in the past generation may play a part in some cases of infertility. A psychodynamic approach is then developed to highlight the hypothesis of a link between the traumatic impact of these filiation events on these men and its translation as a somatic expression.