Studies in Depression, Ii* Treatment of the Depressed, Frigid Woman†

Female frigidity is invariably associated with depression, and treatment of the condition should include control of the associated psychological disturbance. In this report, an outline is given of the techniques currently used in the Department of Gynæcological Psychiatry in the Women's Hospital, Crown Street, Sydney, where patients have been referred for treatment of primary and secondary frigidity arising from gynæcological, obstetric and life-situational causes. Stress is laid on the need for exact and careful gynæcological work-up, assessment of life-situational stress factors, physical examination, psychotherapy and explanatory therapy, joint sessions with both husband and wife, pharmacological splinting and hormonal boost therapy.