[Psychiatric aspects of transsexualism]

Bull Acad Natl Med. 1996 Jun-Jul;180(6):1389-93; discussion 1393-4.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Transsexualism is a mental disease in which gender identity goes contrary to corporal reality. Diagnostic is purely clinical and needs a prolonged observation. The actual experience concerning about 700 cases allow us to consider that one quarter of patients should get sexual conversion.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Psychiatry*
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Transsexualism / diagnosis
  • Transsexualism / psychology*
  • Transsexualism / therapy
  • Treatment Outcome