Symptomatic Trans-sexualism
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 156 (6) , 894-896
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.156.6.894
Abstract
A 24-year-old male schizophrenic had a delusion that he was female and had lived his life as a woman for almost two years. Unlike the only other reported case, his ‘symptomatic transsexualism’ responded to the effective treatment of his schizophrenia.Keywords
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