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Symptomatic Trans-sexualism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Martin Commander  and
Christine Dean
Martin Commander*
Affiliation:
Highcroft Hospital, Birmingham, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
Christine Dean
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15
*
∗ Correspondence
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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.

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Brief Report
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 6 , June 1990 , pp. 894 - 896
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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