[What does a thorough personality questionnaire, the MMPI-2, tell us about psychological aspects of recurrent miscarriage?]. / Étude des aspects psychologiques des fausses couches à répétition à l'aide d'un questionnaire de personnalité approfondi : le MMPI-2.

OBJECTIVES: Try to analyse the experience of couples undergoing repeated miscarriages by answering the following questions: what can we learn from these men and women who suffered from repeated miscarriages? PATIENTS AND METHODS: A thorough personality questionnaire, the MMPI-2, presented to 50 couples who have had repeated miscarriages. RESULTS: Through a hierarchical classification, different profiles appear in the men's group as well as in the women's group, revealing a somatization of psychological suffering. It is also revealing acute defensive personality profiles showing restricted affects in a lot of these men whose partners have suffered from multiple procreation failures. Such a narrower range of emotions can be a cause of additional pain for their partner and for themselves. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: We can therefore establish that, in these circumstances, the medical and/or psychological treatment should include both couple members to improve the marital adjustment and ease the couple towards another pregnancy which is always apprehended with the fear of another failure. A few etiological hypothesis may be evoked.