Gender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations

Introduction. This article presents a review of current concepts of gender identity under normal and pathological conditions. Aim. To analyse the impact of the medical and social paradigm shift for clinical practice. Results and discussion. The modern academic literature devoted to gender iden...

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Autores principales: Anton V. Dyachenko, Alexey Y. Perekhov, Victor A. Soldatkin, Olga A. Bukhanovskaya
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:9c0b021647284a74868c24b6bf8b71682021-11-30T16:05:53ZGender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations2712-76722713-291910.17816/CP68https://doaj.org/article/9c0b021647284a74868c24b6bf8b71682021-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://consortium-psy.com/jour/article/viewFile/68/pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/2712-7672https://doaj.org/toc/2713-2919Introduction. This article presents a review of current concepts of gender identity under normal and pathological conditions. Aim. To analyse the impact of the medical and social paradigm shift for clinical practice. Results and discussion. The modern academic literature devoted to gender identity disorders is characterized by a variety of terminology, a shift in emphasis from clinical judgement to a socially beneficial normocentric approach and a relatively few advanced, evidence-based research. There is also a lack of evidence for the gender theory underlying the new approach, which raises serious doubts about the validity of the medical and social paradigm revision. In the same time, the position of Russian psychiatrists remains to be more clinically oriented. Conclusion. Patients who declare the desire to reassign their gender have to be assessed by psychiatrists for differential diagnosis to exclude a mental disorder. In such cases, the destigmatization of mental disorders is more critical than the depathologization of gender identity disorders.Anton V. DyachenkoAlexey Y. PerekhovVictor A. SoldatkinOlga A. BukhanovskayaEco-Vectorarticlegender identity disordersgender dysphoriatranssexualismtransgendergender reassignmentPsychiatryRC435-571PsychologyBF1-990ENRUConsortium Psychiatricum, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 54-64 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
RU
topic gender identity disorders
gender dysphoria
transsexualism
transgender
gender reassignment
Psychiatry
RC435-571
Psychology
BF1-990
spellingShingle gender identity disorders
gender dysphoria
transsexualism
transgender
gender reassignment
Psychiatry
RC435-571
Psychology
BF1-990
Anton V. Dyachenko
Alexey Y. Perekhov
Victor A. Soldatkin
Olga A. Bukhanovskaya
Gender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations
description Introduction. This article presents a review of current concepts of gender identity under normal and pathological conditions. Aim. To analyse the impact of the medical and social paradigm shift for clinical practice. Results and discussion. The modern academic literature devoted to gender identity disorders is characterized by a variety of terminology, a shift in emphasis from clinical judgement to a socially beneficial normocentric approach and a relatively few advanced, evidence-based research. There is also a lack of evidence for the gender theory underlying the new approach, which raises serious doubts about the validity of the medical and social paradigm revision. In the same time, the position of Russian psychiatrists remains to be more clinically oriented. Conclusion. Patients who declare the desire to reassign their gender have to be assessed by psychiatrists for differential diagnosis to exclude a mental disorder. In such cases, the destigmatization of mental disorders is more critical than the depathologization of gender identity disorders.
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author Anton V. Dyachenko
Alexey Y. Perekhov
Victor A. Soldatkin
Olga A. Bukhanovskaya
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Victor A. Soldatkin
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title Gender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations
title_short Gender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations
title_full Gender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations
title_fullStr Gender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations
title_full_unstemmed Gender Identity Disorders: Current Medical and Social Paradigm and the ICD-11 Innovations
title_sort gender identity disorders: current medical and social paradigm and the icd-11 innovations
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