Group therapy with gender-identity patients--a four-year study

Am J Psychother. 1982 Apr;36(2):223-8. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1982.36.2.223.

Abstract

Group psychotherapy has proven to be an ideal setting for treatment, observation, and evaluation of gender-dysphoric patients prior to, during, and after sex reassignment surgery. Forty-three percent of the patients seen in the Case Western Reserve University group-therapy program elected nonsurgical solutions. The types of changes and adaptations observed in the 28 group-therapy patients are divided into four categories and discussed.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Gender Identity*
  • Humans
  • Identification, Psychological*
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Psychotherapy, Group / methods*
  • Social Adjustment
  • Transsexualism / psychology
  • Transsexualism / therapy*