Psychiatric aspects of sex reassignment surgery.
Sex reassignment surgery is perhaps the most controversial issue in psychiatry today. Clinicians involved in the treatment of transsexualism have been accused of "playing God" or colluding with the patient's psychopathology. This paper reviews the literature and argues for a systematic approach to the treatment of transsexualism.
Mate-Kole
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Department of Psychiatry, Charing Cross and Westminster Hospitals Medical School, London.
Freschi
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D012734:Disorders of Sex Development; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery*; D014190:Transvestism