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J Hoenig

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PubMed1979

Verbal tests and transsexualism.

Gender discriminating vocabulary tests administered to a consecutive series of 53 male transsexuals show different results. The Slater Selective Vocabulary Test, Cohen's factors and the Terman-Miles Attitude Interest Analysis Test (M-F) show male transsexuals to have a higher degree of feminization than normal controls. The Wechsler-Bellevue Vocabulary Test and the Wechsler M-F Test are difficult to interpret, and do not show a clear trend of feminization in transsexual males. The investigation has shown that male transsexuals have a vocabulary which differs from that of normal males in the direction of greater feminization.

Humans↗
PubMed1979

Suicide in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The present investigation was undertaken to explore the special factors associated with low suicide rates in Newfoundland and covered the ten year period of 1964 to 1973. The data were collected from death certificates. Comparisons were made with figures for Canada as a whole, as reported in the official statistics. Apart from a constant overall low rate of suicide in Newfoundland, women and young people (aged 15 to 29) failed to show an increase in the suicide rates such as has been observed in other parts of Canada and throughout the western world. In Newfoundland, age specific suicide rates, choice of method, variations in the rates for different religious denominations and seasonal variations in suicide rates were different from those observed elsewhere. Generally, suicide in Newfoundland shows a much older pattern and does not involve the new high-risk groups seen in more urbanized societies. Possible explanations for the special demographic characteristics of suicide in Newfoundland are offered, mainly on social, cultural and geographical grounds.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

EEG abnormalities and transsexualism.

A consecutive series of 46 transsexuals, 35 men and 11 women, showed EEG abnormalities in 48 per cent and borderline abnormalities in another 24 per cent. Women showed the abnormalities in a significantly higher proportion than men. Those with the EEG abnormalities were slightly younger at inception, suggesting that they sought help at an earlier age, and their transsexualism became obvious to their families earlier. Those with personality disorders had EEG abnormalities more frequently, but not significantly so. This group of transsexual patients seemed to have a low sex drive, and those with abnormal EEGs even more so; but again the differences were not significant. The possible significance of these findings for the understanding of transsexualism is discussed.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Religious beliefs and psychiatric disorder in Sri Lanka.

After a brief description of the popular beliefs on the causation of illness held in Sir Lanka, eight illustrative case histories are presented. Although the incidence of religious-supernatural contents of mental disorders has been decreasing in the West it is by no means rare. It does, however, occur mostly in psychotic illness, whereas in Sri Lanka it occurs with great frequency in both psychotic and neurotic conditions. The indigenous exorcistic methods of treatment will be more effective in some cases than in others and a careful diagnosis will provide indications as to the choice of treatment.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Verbal characteristics of male and female transsexuals.

Slater's Selective Vocabulary Test was given to a group of 56 male and a group of 14 female transsexuals and the results were compared with those of 15-year-old boys and girls, and a group of normal male adults. It was found that whereas normal males and females have a ratio of gender appropriate words to cross gender words of approximately 2 to 1, in both male and female transsexuals that ratio is more like 1 to 1. The way in which this abnormal vocabulary acquisition may come about is briefly discussed. The factors related to this abnormal learning are not known.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1974

Sexual and other abnormalities in the family of a transsexual.

A case of transsexualism with homosexuality of Kinsey type 6 is described, in whose maternal kinship were found a large number of persons with various types of sexual abnormalities including one case of probable transsexualism. The pattern of intermarriage produces from generation to generation an increasing number of children with such abnormalities. The patient and a number of relatives also show epilepsy. That disorder seems to exist mainly in the paternal kinship, and the coexistence of transexxualism and epilepsy in the patient seems coincidental.

Adolescent↗