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C Mate-Kole

Publications and source records attributed to C Mate-Kole.

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PubMed1990

A controlled study of psychological and social change after surgical gender reassignment in selected male transsexuals.

Of two groups of 20 patients accepted for gender reassignment surgery, one was offered early operation and therefore had had surgery by follow-up two years later, while the second was still awaiting operation at two-year follow-up. Although the groups were similar initially, significant differences between them emerged at follow-up in terms of neuroticism and social and sexual activity, with benefits being enjoyed by the operated group.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1988

Aspects of psychiatric symptoms at different stages in the treatment of transsexualism.

Three groups of male transsexuals at different stages of the treatment process were examined and shown to match retrospectively in actuarial and psychiatric data. Transsexuals who were on a waiting list for surgery showed lower neurotic scores on the Crown-Crisp Experiential Index than those at the assessment stage of clinic attendance, while post-operative transsexuals obtained scores lower than either of the other groups. Transsexuals during the assessment stage of treatment obtained the lowest scores on items in the Bem Sex Role Inventory that define stereotypical masculine characteristics and the highest scores on items that define stereotypical feminine characteristics, in relation to the other two groups.

Adult↗
PubMed1988

Psychiatric aspects of sex reassignment surgery.

Sex reassignment surgery is perhaps the most controversial issue in psychiatry today. Clinicians involved in the treatment of transsexualism have been accused of "playing God" or colluding with the patient's psychopathology. This paper reviews the literature and argues for a systematic approach to the treatment of transsexualism.

Disorders of Sex Development↗
PubMed1987

The disconnection in anomic aphasia between semantic and phonological lexicons.

PB, a right handed woman aged 26, has developed anomic language disturbances following right frontal and left temporal brain damage due to a road traffic accident. Her anomia shows exceptional features: it occurs in naming tasks in test conditions but not in continuous speech; it involves comprehension deficits but very few semantic errors in expression; it improves with phonemic, but not with semantic cues. These features, it is argued, indicate the disconnection between two intact lexicons: the semantic and the phonological.

Adult↗