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Parent-Child Relations in Transsexual and Non-transsexual Homosexual Males

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Kurt Freund ,
Ron Langevin ,
Yaroslaw Zajac ,
Betty Steiner  and
Andrew Zajac
Kurt Freund
Affiliation:
Clark Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto 2b, Ontario, Canada
Ron Langevin
Affiliation:
Clark Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto 2b, Ontario, Canada
Yaroslaw Zajac
Affiliation:
Clark Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto 2b, Ontario, Canada
Betty Steiner
Affiliation:
Clark Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto 2b, Ontario, Canada
Andrew Zajac
Affiliation:
Clark Institute of Psychiatry, 250 College Street, Toronto 2b, Ontario, Canada
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Since Freud's remark that unavailability of a strong and friendly father figure favours the development of homosexuality, the notion has prevailed that, in males, homosexuality and/or ‘femininity’ are due either to the father's physical unavailability or to a disturbance of the father-son relationship. If this hypothesis were valid, one would expect that such gross defect in male role learning as appears in transsexual males should be quite clearly associated with unreplaced father loss or various forms of gross deficiency in father-son relations.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 124 , Issue 578 , January 1974 , pp. 22 - 23
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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