Abstract
Theoretical accounts of the origins of gender identity disturbance are reviewed and then followed by a description of the establishment of a child and adolescent gender identity clinic. Clinical impressions of 16 gender disturbed patients are presented and the position is taken that most patients manifested a confused, as opposed to fixed, core gender identity.
MeSH terms
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Adolescent
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Child
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Child Behavior Disorders / psychology*
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Child Guidance Clinics*
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Community Mental Health Services*
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Disorders of Sex Development
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Family Therapy
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Female
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Gender Identity*
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Homosexuality
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Humans
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Identification, Psychological*
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Individuation
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Male
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Ontario
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Parent-Child Relations
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Personality Disorders / psychology
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Research
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Transvestism / psychology