Sex roles and the psychiatric referral process

Feinblatt, John; Gold, Alice Ross

doi:10.1007/bf00287244

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“…Zuger and Taylor also showed that these behaviours were not frequently found in children (73% never engaged in any of them). Feinblatt and Gold (1976) found that of 193 children referred to a Connecticut child guidance clinic, four boys and three girls (3.6% of the total) were referred primarily because of 'gender-role inappropriate behaviour'.…”

Section: Epidemiologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender identity disorder in young people

Ceglie¹

2000

Adv. psychiatr. treat

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The recent film Boys Don't Cry illustrates in a highly dramatised form the problems that the phenomenon of gender identity disorder can create in an extreme situation. The film is based on the true story of a young person, Brandon, with a female body who perceived himself as a male. In the film we do not know when the issue of his male gender identity first appeared, but we see him living in a male role as a teenager trying to conceal, to his peers, the reality of his female body. (I refer to Brandon as ‘he’ because this is how Brandon presents himself in the film. The dilemma about using ‘he’ or ‘she’ typically confronts professionals in the management of teenagers like Brandon.) The struggles of these concealments are well portrayed, as in the scene when he steals tampons from a shop. He joins in male activities and displays of physical strength as a confirmation of his male role. He is well accepted as a boy within a troubled and troublesome group of young people. He falls passionately in love with a girl, Lana, who accepts him as he is without much questioning, and a close intimate relationship develops, which the peer group seems to accept. The reality of his body is eventually revealed. His girlfriend can accept the new situation, but had she really not known or had she turned a blind eye? Unfortunately, two young men become more and more disturbed by this realisation. It stirs a primitive violence in them, which leads first to Brandon's rape and then to his murder.

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Section: Epidemiologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender identity disorder in young people

Ceglie¹

2000

Adv. psychiatr. treat

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“…The question of whether sex bias occurs in clinical work with children has also attracted more attention. Besides the two family evaluation analogues cited by Abramowitz and Dokecki (1977), we now have two others specific to children (Chasen, 1975;Feinblatt & Gold, 1976). A few researchers (Aslin, 1977;Cowan, 1976;Maslin & Davis, 1975) got more mileage out of the Broverman et al (1 970) paradigm, but others voiced dissatisfaction with it.…”

Section: Conceptual and Methodological Advancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus although only a few years have passed since the foregoing reviews were prepared, a number of new analogue and field studies of sex bias in clinical (i.e., personal adjustment-oriented) evaluation have become available. W e located 14 additional analogues (Aslin, 1977;Billingsley, 1977;Chasen, 1975;Cowan, 1976;Cowan, Weiner, & Weiner, 1974;Delk & Ryan, 1977;Feinblatt & Gold, 1976;Fischer, Dulaney, Fazio, Hudak, & Zivotofsky, 1976;Hill, Tanney, Leonard, & Reiss, 1977;Hobfall & Penner, 1978;Johnson, 1978;Maslin & Davis, 1975;Stearns, Penner, & Kimmel, 1978;Warner, 1978), plus an extended analysis (Neulinger, Stein, Schillinger, & Welkowitz, 1970) of an analogue (Neulinger, 1968) ieviewed previously.…”

Section: Overview Of Recent Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Subjects in most studies were practicing clinicians. Three samples (Feinblatt & Gold, 1976;Hobfall & Penner, 1978;Maslin & Davis, 1975) were composed of trainees and two (Cowan et al, 1974;Hill et al, 1977) consisted of staff and trainees. Delk and Ryan (1 977) compared professionals, trainees, and psychiatric patients.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The four studies that afford the broadest and most clinically sophisticated tests of patient gender effects (Billingsley, 1977;Feinblatt & Gold, 1976;Johnson, 1978;Stearns et al, 1978) generally yielded null findings as did a fifth more limited investigation (Cowan et al, 1974). Billingsley (1977) did not detect any patient gender effects on diagnostic or prognostic judgments, and Stearns et al (1 978) found few such effects on those types of evaluations or on treatment recommendations.…”

Section: Patient Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

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