Decreased sexual desire in a patient with infertility: a clinical сase

Abstract

The article addresses the problem of decreased sexual desire in an infertile female with a decreased ovarian reserve who needs to use assisted reproductive technologies. Short-term psychotherapy as part of rational and cognitive-behavioral therapy was used; psychotherapeutic procedures with relaxing breathing techniques and a method of nonconscious audiovisual psychocorrection were described.

Keywords

• infertility
• adjustment disorder
• mixed anxiety-depressive reaction
• psychosexual dysfunction
• decreased sex desire
• hypo-orgasmia
• psychotherapy