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In eight pages this paper addresses a particular psychiatric patient presenting the problem of gender identity disorder similar to the character of Brandon Teena in the 1999 film Boys Don’t Cry within the context of historical, diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment issues as well as developmental theories with a brief literature review also included. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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regards herself as a male even though her biological construction suggests otherwise. In order to liberate herself from her anatomical prison, Teena cuts her hair short and begins dressing
like a boy, even tucking a sock into her jeans to give the impression she has a penis. Feeling oppressed in the rural environment of her hometown of Lincoln,
Nebraska, Teena relocates to another Nebraska town of Falls City. There, with her male persona and new name of Brandon Teena, she socially interacts with other males, begins pursuing
relationships with females, and after a lifetime of loneliness and isolation, HE feels accepted as a man. From a clinical standpoint, a female psychiatric patient presenting the same
characteristics as Teena Brandon/Brandon Teena would first have to be examined by a specialist that would diagnose her developmental issues and problems in accordance with the criteria established by the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the fourth edition text revision, which is more commonly known by its abbreviated form of DSM-IV-TR. The DSM-IV-TR classification of this disorder
would be gender identity disorder (GID). The diagnostic criteria for such a disorder includes a "strong and persistent cross-gender identification and by persistent discomfort with ones sex" (Meyenburg, 1999,
p. 305). This gender identification with the opposite sex typically commences either in childhood or often within adolescence. For the
adolescent female, there can be extreme gender dysphoria or confusion that can manifest itself in anger, frustration, depression, rebelliousness, and result in social isolation from her peer group. When
the female patient experiences gender dysphoria, this refers to a huge discrepancy between her sex determined before birth and the gender identity she seeks (Carroll, Gilroy, & Ryan, 2002).
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