The Frequency of Psychosomatic Disorders in a Gynecological University Clinic

Since no empirical data on the frequency of psychosomatic disorders in gynecology are available as yet, we were interested in finding out how many patients of an outpatient department of gynecology estimated themselves as being psychosomatically disturbed. For 1 month (February 1975) we examined 439 women, who had come to the outpatient department of gynecology at the Charlottenburg Medical Center, Berlin by means of the Freiburg personality inventory (FPI) and the Freiburg list of complaints (FBL).