書目名稱 | Gender Dysphoria | 副標(biāo)題 | Development, Researc | 編輯 | Betty W. Steiner | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/382/381510/381510.mp4 | 叢書名稱 | Perspectives in Sexuality | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | In the decade-and-a-half since I coedited Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment (Green & Money, 1969), remarkable changes have occurred with Harry Ben- jamin‘s "transsexual phenomenon" (1966). Formerly, when writing about this condition in scientific journals, it was necessary to define the term transsex- ualism. Now the lay public recognizes it. Even the American Psychiatric Asso- ciation acknowledges it as a "disorder," with its inclusion in the Third Edition of its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (1980). Although this "elevation" to the status of mental illness may seem a Pyrrhic victory, it is a recognition of the legitimacy of transsexual ism as a source of human suffering. The controversy that surrounded the decisions in the early patient cases to perform sex-change surgery has largely dissipated. The cries of "collusion with delusion," principally from psychoanalysts, have quieted. The dire predictions of psychosis and/or suicide following surgery as the "last psychic defenses are cut away" have almost never been realized. By contrast, many postoperative patients consider the surgery to have been life-saving. Medical centers worldwide have incorporated programs for evaluatin | 出版日期 | Book 1985 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Syndrom; age; child; diagnosis; epidemiology; gender; health; health care; identity; organizations; psychosis; | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4784-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-4786-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-4784-2Series ISSN 1568-2161 | issn_series | 1568-2161 | copyright | Plenum Press, New York 1985 |
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