title: [Transsexual development after committing an offense].
abstract: Connections between transsexualism and delinquency have been considered in only a few publications to date. The authors report on a forensic psychiatric case with a transsexual development after committing an offence based on sexual deviations. Transsexualism in this context seems to represent an attempt for the symbolic solution of a conflict of identity. This should be interpreted in the context of psychotherapy and not be misunderstood as a symptom proving the diagnosis of manifest transsexualism by orientation on pure phenomenological criteria.
authors.affiliation: Fachbereich Humanmedizin Institut für Forensische Psychiatrie, Freie Universität, Berlin.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weitze
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Konrad
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry / Q000639:trends; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology*; D014189:Transsexualism / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*