title: [Psychiatric aspects of transsexualism].
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.
authors.affiliation: l'Université Paris VII.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Breton
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Cordier
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D016896:Treatment Outcome