Talk Therapy. For Fertility.
June 21, 2006 by kate baggott
Filed under Mental Health
“Just relax! It will happen when it’s meant to happen.”
Those must be the most infuriating words any couple trying to conceive have ever heard.
Unfortunately, there might be something to this insensitive remark.
It’s a study of just 16 patients, but apparently some women who experience infertility are being successfully treated, not with hormones, but with talk therapy. According to an article in the Irish Independent (free registration required), researchers have found that cognitive behavioural therapy, a method that focusses on changing how people respond to events, helps women with functional hypothalamic amenorrhoea ovulate. FTA is the more severe form of a …read more
