Physicians' knowledge of therapy and counseling stands among the most important issues in the viewpoints of clients who refer to psychiatric centers. Transsexual patients are very important in this regard. The goal of this research is to study their attitude toward doctors' empathy. A group of transsexual patients who referred to the Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Iran, answered the Jefferson ...

Abstract This chapter explores the relationships between life writing, memory, and photography suggests that incidence of photographs (actual or described) in life-writing texts is most prominent autofictional works which possess generic hybridity often represent identity itself hybrid terms. The images seeing mirroring autobiographical texts, focusing first on transsexual life-writings (includ...

On July 11, in Christine Goodwin v. United Kingdom (Application No. 28957/95) and I. v. United Kingdom (Application No. 25680/94), a Grand Chamber of 17 judges of the European Court of Human Rights held unanimously that the United Kingdom’s refusal to permit post-operative transsexuals to have their birth certificates amended to reflect their reassigned sex, and to contract different-sex marria...

BACKGROUND Transsexual persons afford a very suitable model to study the effect of sex steroids on uric acid metabolism. DESIGN This was a prospective study to evaluate the uric acid levels and fractional excretion of uric acid (FEUA) in a cohort of 69 healthy transsexual persons, 22 male-to-female transsexuals (MFTs) and 47 female-to-male transsexuals (FMTs). The subjects were studied at bas...

Two years of individual and milieu therapy are described of a 14 1/2-year-old girl who had presented with the persistent request to have a sex-change operation since age 12. Her past history was obtained from her parent and the records of the child guidance clinic which evaluated her at 3 years of age. She gives a history of remarkable tomboyism during her latency years and increasing withdrawa...

The purpose of this research is to achieve uniform spatial resolution in CT (computed tomography) images without hardware modification. The main idea of this study is to consider geometry optics model, which can provide the approximate blurring PSF (point spread function) kernel, which varies according to the distance from X-ray tube to each pixel. The FOV (field of view) was divided into sever...

We introduce Kloosterman polynomials over F2m , and use these polynomials to prove three identities involving Kloosterman sums over F2m .

The legal challenges posed by individuals who do not easily fit into accepted legal categories but who, nonetheless, may be recognised as a social category or distinct group of people by the society in which they live is the issue that informs this article. More specifically, I am concerned with people who do not readily fit into the usual binary divide of male or female with reference to the l...

Prosthetic breast implants can become a focus of in the left breast and both buttocks, consistent with infection, so 48 h later a whole body gallium-67 citrate infection. Although this is usually a relatively early complication, there has been a single case report of a study was performed (Figure 1b), which confirmed that there was infection in the left breast and the right breast implant becom...