RESUMO
Infertility is recognised as an important clinical and social issue, because of the common occurrence and therapeutical difficulties. It is suggested by some researchers that psychopathological factors might play an important pathogenic role in its development, some others claim that psychopathology is rather secondary to the infertility. Although a growing number of articles related to this issue are observed, we are far from the simple and commonly accepted model of relationship between psychoemotional factors and infertility. In this article, basing on the literature, a multidimensional problem of relationship between infertility and psychopathological factors is discussed; both pathogenic (psychogenic model) and secondary to the illness model are presented.
