This is a translation of a brochure, Die Geschlechtskälte der Frau, published in Vienna in 1934. It is written for a larger circle of physicians and is intended to introduce to them the fundamental idea of frigidity as a complex condition for the most part of psychological origin. This aim it fulfils admirably and we hope the book will be widely read.

After narrating what is known of the development of female sexuality, the authors describe eighteen distinct types of frigidity and also give an account of two analysed cases. Psycho-analytical considerations are in such a book naturally presented in broad outline without any attempt to discuss their extreme complexity. The authors are of opinion that a prognosis in such cases, when psycho-analytically treated, is good, but they unfortunately omit to discuss the difficult problem of refractory cases that are from time to time met with.