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Conclusions (II)
• Studies have to differentiate between the psychological impact of infertility on women and men and their respective abilities to communicate about this distress
• The influences of the doctor‘s gender and of the counsellor‘s gender on the infertile man‘s well-being and emotional adjustment during ART have to be studied yet
• More studies on infertile men in Non-Western societies have to be conducted
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“Your count is zero”
“One in seven couples today have a problem with fertility.
While medical techniques for helping some couples continue to advance, for others there is no hope.
For those of us in the latter category it is an inexpressible nightmare punctuated with operative procedures, probing personal questions, and frightful expenses.
It is also the death of a dream.” (Boyd 1988, p. 4)
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