In a well-written paper Dr. Suttie lays stress upon certain difficulties which render adjustment to reality in a woman's life more difficult than in a man's, and which account for the greater incidence of mental disturbances in women as shown by statistics. Economic success, she says, can only be achieved at the expense of celibacy in the girl. She is burdened with a sex inferiority feeling which is implanted in her in the home. Her only hope of economic success lies in modelling herself on the male, and this results in intrapsychic conflict.

Women are suffering from a growing deviation of interest from their biological objectives forced upon them by modern life, and, as their sexual needs are more of the warp and woof of life than man's, sublimation is rendered more difficult.