PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Gender Dysphoria, Cyproterone, Hormone

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Tootle

Document Summary

Effects of psychological treatment for sexual offenders who have come in contact with the legal system have been found to modestly prevent later occurrence of offenses. Drug treatments: cyproterone acetate antiandrogen used to eliminate sexual desire and fantasy by reducing testosterone levels dramatically, medroxyprogesterone a hormonal agent that reduces testosterone. Paraphilic disorders run a chronic course and recurrence is common. Gender dysphoria present if a person"s physical sex is not consistent with the person"s sense of who he or she really is or with his or her experienced gender. Primary goal is to live a happy life in an open manner consistent with that of the. Genetics contribute ~62% to creating a vulnerability to experience gender other gender dysphoria in their twin sample. Gender nonconformity boys who behave in a feminine way and girl who behave in a masculine way. Sex reassignment surgery an irreversible surgery in which one"s physical sex is changed through a series of procedures.