Further insights into transsexualism.
Transsexualism is a challenging entity posing diagnostical, etiological, ethical and moral questions with no general consensus of opinion and a controversial management policy. The present article tries to deal with these questions by drawing a parallel with another psychiatric syndrome in which there is also a disturbance in body image, namely anorexia nervosa. The parallel is at the level of clinical presentation, psychodynamic etiology and their common socioepidemic dimension.
Becker
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Ness-Ziona Mental Health Center, Israel.
Mester
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D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*