FURTHER INSIGHTS INTO TRANSSEXUALISM

Transsexualism is a challenging entity posing diagnostical, etiologica l, ethical and moral questions with no general consensus of opinion an d a controversial management policy. The present article tries to deal with these questions by drawing a parallel with another psychiatric s yndrome in which there is also a disturbance in body image, namely ano rexia nervosa. The parallel is at the level of clinical presentation, psychodynamic etiology and their common socioepidemic dimension.