[Personality and the social significance of hirsutism]

Cyproterone acetate treatment was applied with good success by the authors to 52 patients with hirsutism. Yet, the patients' confidence in the medicament was negatively affected by recurrence of symptoms during intervals of discontinued medication. However, effective help can be given to such women to get to grips with their own psychic conflicts by disclosing to them and discussing with them those environmental factors due to which insecurity was built up in them regarding their sexual role. Such psychotherapeutic approach will back up pharmacotherapy and mitigate regression during intervals. Virile women do not accept their own female role unless they are given in parallel both gynaecological and psychotherapeutic treatment.