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