PSYC 3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder, Gender Dysphoria, Human Sexual Response Cycle

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3604
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

Strong and persistent cross-gender identification along with a persistent discomfort with their assigned gender: gender identity an individual"s self-perception as male or female, or some category other than male or female. Therefore, gender dysphoria is the distress that can come with the incongruence between one"s experience/expressed gender and their assigned gender: not all gd patients will experience distress, the focus is on the distress, not the identity. A strong feeling of inconsistency between the assigned gender and their experienced/expressed gender: this discrepancy is the core feature, the consistency is what causes distress. The distress must last at least 6 months. Marked incongruence between experienced/expressed gender and primary/secondary sex characteristics. Strong desire to be rid of one"s primary/secondary sex characteristics. Strong desire for the sex characteristics of the other gender. Strong desire to be of the other gender. Strong desire to be treated as the other gender. Strong conviction that one has the typical feelings and reactions of the other gender.