Emotional stress and infertility.

Abstract

THE term ‘stress’ is here taken to mean “the internal or resisting force brought into being in the human organism by interaction with the environment” [l]. In stress disorders in general it is the interaction between man and his fellow-beings which produces illness; in infertility it is the quality of the relationship to the spouse, as well as to the rest of the family, which is of great importance. In many disorders this relationship may be obvious but with infertility it is often obscure.