Am J Psychiatry 1975; 132:962-964
Copyright © 1975 by American Psychiatric Association
A study of transsexuals seeking gender reassignment
JC Finney, JM Brandsma, M Tondow and G Lemaistre
The authors report the results. of a computerized psychodiagnostic
assessment of 19 males and 1 female seeking sex-reassignment surgery. The
most pervasive finding was hysterical personality trend (13 of 20 cases).
Twelve patients exhibited psychotic trends: 6 showed psychotic thinking on
test scores, and 6 received computer-preferred diagnoses of paranoid or
schizoid personality. However, most of these 12 patients were not
considered psychotic on interview, and those who had sex- reassignment
surgery had good results
