Individual Therapy, Group Therapy and Co- Therapy Work with Infertile Couples

In recent years some pioneering technological discoveries in areas like I.V.F. have enabled many patients to conceive babies despite the presence of such handicaps as damaged Fallopian tubes or chronic pelvic infection. To develop new ways of dealing with manifest organic pathology is one thing. However to allow an increasingly biological and technological focus to dominate our assessments and treatments surely restricts our vision, thereby shutting out awareness of broader issues involving the powerful generative and destructive forces that continue to influence functioning within all of us, as individuals, couples, families and societies. Within any individual person mind and body function in an integrated way. Mind and body are one. It is only when we begin to explore and study the nature of this field that we tend to divide into somewhat polarized camps of medical-organic versus psychological areas of investigation. Kentenich and Siedentopf (2002) state that both these groups have their own strengths and should be mutually respected. However they emphasize that certain personality characteristics play a part in making the choice of profession of a reproduction specialist. A high degree of specialization is a precondition for good reproductive medicine. But they point out that this may cause many reproductive specialists to consider counselling and psychosomatic care as a