We have placed this monograph on frigidity in the hands of a medical rather than a psycho-analytical firm of publishers, in the hope that we may bring to the notice of the large circle of medical men who still stand outside the psycho-analytical movement the fact of the origin of this pathological inhibition in unconscious mental processes. Our belief is that the clinical material we cite will substantiate this view, while our experience justifies an attitude of optimism in the prognosis of a large majority of cases.

In this book, moreover, readers versed in psycho-analysis will find the