A clinical and psycho-sociological case study on gender identity disorder in Japan.
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.
Kameya
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Department of Psychiatry and Sexology, Kojin Hospital, Aichi, Japan.
Narita
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D014190:Transvestism / Q000453:epidemiology*