Persons Seeking Sex Change: Psychiatric Management of Special Problems

RICHARD GREENAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 126, Number 11

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.126.11.1596

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Management of persons seeking sex reassignment includes exploring their motivation for sex change, facilitating a realistic appreciation of the limits of medical and surgical procedures, encouraging them to undergo reversible somatic changes with hormones during a trial period of living in the desired gender role prior to undertaking irreversible surgical steps, promoting a realistic anticipation of the future after sex reassignment, and, for those who undergo sex change, assisting in the postoperative adjustment.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 126 • Number 11 • May 1970

Pages: 1596 - 1603

PubMed: 5443642

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Published in print: May 1970

Published online: 1 April 2006

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RICHARD GREEN

Assistant professor of psychiatry and director, Gender Identity Research and Treatment Clinic, University of California School of Medicine, 760 Westwood Pl., Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

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Persons Seeking Sex Change: Psychiatric Management of Special Problems

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