Just wondering

[Delila]

I read a post on another thread about the benjamin scale while this seems to be mostly useless i was wondering if anyone has found any other more recent psychological research on the subject of crossdressing.

[Joy Carter]

The most unstable people I know have been syke majours. So honey don't read to much because it will only confuse you more. I have found that some times the most profound observations have come from the so called uneducated.

[Jill]

Well, being a psych major and working in the mental health field, I slightly resent that remark but oh well. As it turns out, there's really very little research done on this in the psych field, it actually gets a surprisingly low amount of attention. At least for me. I think if more CDers were out of the closet, it would get a lot more attention but as it turns out, it seems that more than half are still in hiding, myself included. In the psych feild, CDing typicallly doesn't even get it's own chapter in the books, it's usually a brief subheading in a human sexuality or abnormal psych book. This Benjamin scale is the first formal thing I've yet to see on it.

[Christina Nicole]

There is a fair amount of incomplete research. Most either focuses on those who are in an institution or those who are transsexuals. Crossdressers were otherwise pretty much invisible.

The institutionalized ones were either psych patients for one reason or another, or sex offenders. Hardly a representative sample! Quite a bit of Kinsey's reseach, for example, was done with prisoners and sex offenders.

One can't get HRT or "the operation" without seeing a therapist, so there is quite a bit of information about transsexualism.

Now that there are crossdressers support groups, some research is being done regarding crossdressing now that the researchers can actually find some crossdressers to interview.

I found a pretty good amount of the published research data in the New York Public Library. I had a lot of free time when I was in NYC years ago, so I made use of the library system. It's pretty good and some of the librarians are excellent resources.

Warm regards,
Christina Nicole

[Monica55cd]

the book "My Husband Betty" by Helen boyd is a vrey good read... it looks like she did a lot of research and interviews....that was my first book i got on the subject and i read it often

[Jennaie]

The most unstable people I know have been syke majours. So honey don't read to much because it will only confuse you more. I have found that some times the most profound observations have come from the so called uneducated.

Couldn't agree more, I was married to psyc, two years after our divorce I bumped into our marraige counsler, who told me that the best thing I ever did was get away from her.