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Objectives
 Knowledge of different coping strategies of women and men with fertility problems
 How to make infertility counselling more attractive for men
 Basic knowledge of special topics in counselling men
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Case A: “Psychogenic infertility”?
Telephone counselling with a man, 35 yrs old: His younger girlfriend has a strong desire for a child for two years now, but he himself does not want a child.
They have had regular unprotected sexual intercourse but his partner won‘t get pregnant.
A recent sperm analysis yielded in the diagnosis of a severe oligoasthenoteratozoospermia (OAT).
His question: Could his strict refusal to father a child be
responsible for his sperm analysis results (in the sense of a
psychosomatic causality)?
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