Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine (Jan 2016)

Transvestism as a symptom: A case series

  • M Anupama,
  • K H Gangadhar,
  • Vandana B Shetty,
  • P Dip Bhadja

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.175131
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 38, no. 1
pp. 78 – 80

Abstract

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Transvestism, commonly termed as cross-dressing, means to dress in the clothing of opposite sex. We describe a series of three cases with transvestism as one of their primary complaints. The discussion sheds light on the various ways in which transvestism as a symptom can present in Psychiatry. In the first two cases, there was lower intelligence. In first and third case, there were other paraphilia along with transvestism. Second case had co-morbid obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and had good response to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI).

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