Overview
- State of the art review of gender dysphoria (GD) and disorders of sex development (DSD)
- First comprehensive review of GD and DSD in over a decade
- Focus on scientific research and clinical achievements and challenges in this fast-developing field
- Written by leading researchers and expert clinicians to honor pioneer Peggy Cohen-Kettenis?
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Focus on Sexuality Research (FOSR)
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Keywords
- Endocrinological interventions
- Gender identity diagnoses
- Psychosexual development
- Sex differentiation
- Sex reassignment
- adolescents with gender dysphoria
- biopsychosocial perspectives
- disorders of sex development
- gender dysphoria
- gender dysphoric children
- gender identity development
- gender identity disorder
- intersex
- psychopathology in adolescents
- psychopathology in children
- psychosocial care of persons
- transgender identity development
- transsexualism
- treatment guidelines for GD and DSD
- sexual behaviour
Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Developmental Principles
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Disorders of Sex Development
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Gender Dysphoria
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Annelou de Vries, MD, PhD is a child and adolescent psychiatrist working at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. The scope of her work is consultative-liaison psychiatryat the Pediatric department, focusing on sick children with mental health problems. An important and special part of her work is dedicated to gender dysphoric adolescents. At the Amsterdam Gender Identity Clinic (Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria), adolescents with a gender identity disorder may be eligible for the complete reversible medical treatment with GnRH analogues to block puberty from age 12 on to create rest and time to make a balanced decision about the irreversible gender reassignment when adolescents reach adulthood. Apart from her clinical work with these gender dysphoric adolescents, Annelou de Vries is also involved in research and published several studies on mental health of gender dysphoric adolescents and treatment evaluation of this GnRH analogue treatment.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender Dysphoria and Disorders of Sex Development
Book Subtitle: Progress in Care and Knowledge
Editors: Baudewijntje P.C. Kreukels, Thomas D. Steensma, Annelou L.C. de Vries
Series Title: Focus on Sexuality Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7441-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-7440-1Published: 02 July 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9654-1Published: 06 August 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-7441-8Published: 01 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2195-2264
Series E-ISSN: 2195-2272
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 357
Topics: Gender Studies, Sexual Behavior, Psychology Research