title: A clinical and psycho-sociological case study on gender identity disorder in Japan.
abstract: Gender identity disorder (GID) has been attracting increasing attention in recent years in Japan as well as in the rest of the world. This report presents a GID case followed by a discussion on GID patients in Japanese culture, social pressures upon diagnosis and treatment of GID, and social changes that have brought about the possibility for GID diagnosis and treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Sexology, Kojin Hospital, Aichi, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kameya
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Narita
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D014190:Transvestism / Q000453:epidemiology*