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[Transsexual development after committing an offense]
1Fachbereich Humanmedizin Institut für Forensische Psychiatrie, Freie Universität, Berlin.
Psychiatrische Praxis
|May 5, 1999
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.