Abstract
Psychological examination of 109 women suffering from chronic pelvic pain has demonstrated that as a group these patients feel very insecure and may have conflicts in gender identity. By means of a cluster analysis applied to the self-assessment scores of these patients on a masculinity—femininity dimension, five subgroups could be discerned. In two of these groups (39%) no problems could be established in the patients with regard to security and gender identity. In a third group (41%) the patients show strong feelings of insecurity together with indications of conflicts in identification. In two more groups (17%) the patients show evidence of the existence of severe gender identity problems. Three per cent of the patients do not fit into one of these groups.
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