Although pregnancy is a much investigated process and although the science of obstetrics has advanced greatly in the past fifty years, we still do not know the answers to some of the fundamental questions regarding just what happens to a woman when she becomes pregnant. The theory that the emotional state of a woman might influence conception probably would seem unimportant to gynecologists were it not for its application to the widespread problem of sterility. Physicians, as well as nonmedical groups, are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of psychosomatic investigation. Psychosomatic medicine is that discipline which recognizes the fact that psychic and somatic phenomena are inseparably interwoven. It is now a well accepted fact that we can no longer adhere to the dichomatous concept of man. We no longer can separate an individual into psyche and soma. What affects one affects the other and vice versa. Emotional conflicts can