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Psychosomatic Medicine 30:45-50 (1968)
© 1968 American Psychosomatic Society

Psychological Aspects of the Testicular Feminization Syndrome

EUGENIA NEGULICI M.D.1, D. CHRISTODORESCU M.D.1, and SEN ALEXANDRU M.A.1

1 "G. Marinescu" Hospital, Bucharest, Rumania

Two cases of testicular feminization are reported, in sisters. One sister was hospitalized for a polymorphous neurotic reaction; the other was apparently healthy, with certain masculinoid traits in her behavior.

Certain aspects of the personality structures of intersexed individuals are discussed, with special reference to the testicular feminization syndrome and to the way in which psychosexual orientation develops in such cases.

Deception of one's self-image (which in the case of testicular feminization is less stressing than in other intersexual states) may or may not induce neurosis, depending on the over-all characteristics of the subject's personality.

Submitted on February 17, 1967






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