Group therapy with gender-identity patients--a four-year study.
Group psychotherapy has proven to be an ideal setting for treatment, observation, and evaluation of gender-dysphoric patients prior to, during, and after sex reassignment surgery. Forty-three percent of the patients seen in the Case Western Reserve University group-therapy program elected nonsurgical solutions. The types of changes and adaptations observed in the 28 group-therapy patients are divided into four categories and discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*