What Are the Different Types of Gender Identity Disorder Treatment?

Heterosexualism is heterosexual dressing. It is called "fetish heterosexuality" in ICD-10. It is a special form of fetishism. It expresses a special love for heterosexual clothing, and repeatedly appears and pays attention to wearing heterosexual clothing. All actions can lead to sexual excitement and sexual satisfaction. Heterosexia can range from one or two pieces to complete decoration. It usually begins in late childhood and is related to sexual arousal, at least early. Patients have no problem with their sexual identity, that is, they have a positive attitude towards their biological gender, and do not want to be the opposite sex. Moreover, their sexual orientation is normal, and they are directed to members of the opposite sex, but they are just a way of sexual behavior abnormal.

Basic Information

nickname: Transvestite
Visiting department: Clinical Psychology

Multiple groups: Puberty
Common causes: Obstructed normal sexual development coupled with conditional learning
Common symptoms: Wear heterosexual clothing and have obvious sexual excitement

Causes of transvestites

Studies found no abnormalities in sex chromosomes or sex hormones. Temporal lobe EEG abnormalities have been reported individually, but only in rare cases. The most reasonable explanation is that in fetishism: normal sexual development is hindered and conditional learning is added.

Clinical manifestations of heterosexual disorder

Heterosexuals generally start to wear heterosexual clothing from the time of puberty. The clinical manifestations are as follows: at the beginning, the underwear worn by the patient was heterosexual clothing and was secretly worn, such as men wearing bras, pantyhose, etc., and the jacket was still clothing that matched their gender; thereafter, the number of heterosexual clothing was gradually increasing. , So that the whole body is covered with the opposite sex, inside and outside; and finally, in the public place, wear the opposite sex clothing and wear the opposite sex ornaments. Obvious sexual excitement when wearing heterosexual clothing. When this behavior is suppressed, it can cause significant anxiety.

Transfusion diagnosis

1. Wear the opposite sex to experience the opposite sex role and satisfy your sexual excitement;

2. Don't expect to become the opposite sex permanently;

3. It has lasted at least 6 months.

Differential diagnosis of transfusion

Differentiation from transsexuality

Transsexuals also like to wear heterosexual clothing, but the purpose is just to be more like the opposite sex, and firmly believe that this decoration is wrapped in a true opposite sex, and will not feel pornographic stimulation. Transvestites who wear heterosexual clothing do not doubt and deny their inherent gender, and have no obstacles to gender identity. The purpose of modification is to induce sexual excitement and achieve sexual satisfaction.

Transvestite treatment

Treatment should be performed according to different situations, such as psychoanalytic treatment and aversion therapy. Transsexuals strengthen their restraint through psychotherapy.

Psychoanalytic treatment

The method is to let the patient lean on the sofa comfortably for free association, and express the subconscious content freely without choice. Say what you think, and wherever you think. Don't interrupt it easily. But pay special attention to the problems that patients ca nt describe smoothly or have been involved but suddenly avoided. This is often the crux of transfusion. Letting patients understand and eliminate the crux is a way to correct the pathological behavior of transvestites. The key is also a breakthrough for psychoanalysis.

Then, based on the patient's free association content, especially the key content related to transsexual behavior, analysis and interpretation are conducted to guide the patient to further experience the feelings at that time. Inspire them to realize that transsexual behavior is related to something in their previous experience. At this time, the patient may have empathy, or love or hate, to the psychologist, and the psychologist should use this empathy skillfully to lead the patient's previous emotional attitude to the subconscious, so that his emotions are completely vented.

At the same time, through hints and counseling, help patients understand their mood and interpersonal relationships, and pass the patient's feelings through normal channels in normal life, instead of sublimating or transferring out of the opposite sex clothing, so that transvestite behavior can be corrected. Although psychoanalytic treatment of transvestite is not effective in a short period of time, it can enable patients to understand the root cause of transvestite behavior, to further stimulate the patient's desire for treatment, and to strengthen confidence in treatment, so that he can better play a positive role The initiative has a very important role.

Aversion therapy

That is, when there is a desire and behavior of the opposite sex dress, the patient immediately actively pulls the rubber ring which is set on the wrist in advance, so that the wrist produces obvious painful stimulation until the desire and behavior are suppressed, and the number of pulls is counted. If in the process of correcting the dress and desire of the opposite sex with this method, the number of pulls gradually decreases, after a period of time, this desire and behavior can be controlled and eliminated, and the rubber ring can be removed at this time. In this way, even if there is occasional slight repetition in the future, it can be eliminated through self-control.

Aversion therapy can bring a very unpleasant experience to the person seeking treatment. Before deciding to adopt this method, the patient must explain clearly to the person seeking treatment, and can only perform treatment after obtaining the consent of the person seeking treatment. Moreover, the healer should generally treat aversion as the last option.