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the girl-friend's familiarity with this modality of treatment.

The patient easily and quickly responded to suggestive therapy. Hypnotic trance utilization of re- gression and abreaction released much of the patient's aggressive anxiety. He was made aware of the origins of his aberration and its close connection with the appearance of physical sexuality. By the use of training in auto-hypnosis he was given a feeling of pride in his own ability to help himself in altering habit patterns, e.g. the increased determination and the perseverance necessary to study longer and more intently on his university courses. Hypnotherapeutic sessions were continued to strengthen his ego and to maintain ego support.

compulsively in female clothing was so diminished that he decided to marry upon college graduation, and temporarily terminate treatment.

An interesting postscript is the fact that he continues to seek hypno- therapeutic aid and support at occasional intervals while he is in medical school.

References

(1) Turtle, Georgina: Over the Sex Border. Gollancz, London, 1963, p. 47.

(2) Troncoso, Héctor Uribe: De Choisy. Prince of Tarnsvestites, in Transvestism, edited by David O. Cauldwell. Sexology, New York, 1963, p. 41.

After six months of semi-weekly (3) World Book Encyclopedia, Field Enterprises, sessions, he felt the need to dress

Chicago, 1953, Vol. 4, p. 2,106.

"Doesn't trust himself anymore since he hired that TV as a Women's Nurse last week."

"But boss --- when you promot- ed from mail boy, you said you expected me to wear my best clothes!"

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