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The article examines the developmental features of the maternal sphere of their personality in women with intact reproductive function, but suffering from infertility of unknown origin. We examined 104 women diagnosed with “unspecified infertility”, aged from 23 to 33 years. The control group consisted of 104 pregnant women who did not experience difficulties conceiving a child. The research was carried out using the projective technique of G. G. Filippova “Me and my unborn child” (interpretation proposed by I. V. Vshivkova), methods of R. V. Ovcharova and Yu. A. Degtyareva “Imaginations of an ideal parent”, modified in accordance with the purpose of our research; methodology “The roles of parent and child”, proposed by E. N. Vasilyeva and A. V. Orlov. It was revealed that women with infertility of unknown etiology are characterized by immaturity of the maternal sphere: a superficial and schematic image of the mother and the unborn child, internal rejection of motherhood with an external obsession with the idea of conceiving a child, vague ideas about the role of the mother, her functions, combined with the diversity of parental expectations. It is concluded that it is advisable to include in the content of psychological counseling for women with infertility of unclear etiology methods and technologies of working with the maternal sphere of their personality, psychological correction of images of motherhood and child-parent relationships, distorted due to the family situation of their development, providing assistance in understanding the intrapersonal conflict and its resolution through removing barriers to accepting oneself as a subject of parent-child interaction.