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Expressive psychotherapy with gender dysphoric patients
Archives of General Psychiatry
|August 1, 1981
Summary
Psychotherapy can be effective for gender dysphoria (GD), challenging the notion that it is untreatable. A clinic found most GD patients benefited from psychotherapy, with many achieving non-surgical solutions.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Gender Studies
Background:
- Traditional views suggest transsexualism is resistant to psychotherapy, favoring sex reassignment surgery (SRS).
- The Gender Identity Clinic at Case Western Reserve University aimed to explore psychotherapy alongside SRS for gender dysphoric (GD) patients.