title: A psychotic gynemimetic: I just had a pregnant thought.
abstract: Nomothetic and idiographic content analytic approaches to the Rorschach are used in complementary fashion to explore the psychotic personality structure and primitive interpersonal models in a 37-year-old biologically normal male, who was a gynemimetic, that is, a transvestite who aspired to have the genetalia of a woman. The Rorschach was riddled with psychotic verbalizations and imagery suggesting inadequate differentiation from the original symbiosis, inadequate symbiosis anxiety, and significant separation anxiety--a constellation culminating in the transsexual fantasy of fusion with the mother.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterans Affairs, Minneapolis Medical Center.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Peterson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005783:Gender Identity; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011594:Psychometrics; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D012392:Rorschach Test / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013850:Thinking; D014190:Transvestism / Q000523:psychology*