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Dr. Moulton's psychoanalytic practice reveals significant differences in the nature of women's presenting complaints over the past twenty years. Women in the 1950's more often entered treatment because of sexual problems, particularly frigidity, and problems related to finding and keeping husbands and to childrearing. The complaints in the 1970's involve personal identity, divorce, status, extramarital affairs, and the question of whether marriage is indeed something worth seeking and preserving. Among the more recent complaints is "re-entry anxiety" in women who had previously given up their work for marriage. And the increasing sexual demands made by women appear to have affected their male partners with greater anxiety over impotence. The author leaves little doubt that the feminist movement, with its emphasis on female role change, has led to these differences in presenting complaints of women, and to consequences in male-female role changes. The underlying basic conflicts, however, remain approximately the same.