Psychiatry and Psychology

Transvestism

Disorder characterized by recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving cross-dressing in a heterosexual male. The fantasies, urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other areas of functioning. (from APA, DSM-IV, 1994)

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Abstract

Disorder characterized by recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving cross-dressing in a heterosexual male. The fantasies, urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other areas of functioning. (from APA, DSM-IV, 1994)

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Transvestic Fetishism
  • Fetishism, Transvestic
  • Fetishisms, Transvestic
  • Transvestic Fetishisms
  • Transvestisms

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31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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  1. F03w.657w.800w

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WM 610

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Transvestism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014190. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014190
  2. Transvestism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestism
  3. Transvestism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486680