Word: dysphoria
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Dates: during 1974-1974
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...whose bisexuality has recently been made known include Singer Janis Joplin, Writer Dorothy Thompson and Actresses Tallulah Bankhead and Maria (Last Tango) Schneider. "It has become very fashionable in elite and artistically creative subgroups to be intrigued by the notion of bisexuality," says Psychiatrist Norman Fisk of the Gender Dysphoria Program at Stanford University Medical School. It may very well be, he added, "a sociopolitical phenomenon as much as it is a real psychiatric...
...Stanford's Gender Dysphoria Program, headed by Psychiatrist Norman Fisk and Plastic Surgeon Donald Laub, applicants for surgery are carefully screened. For those who doctors feel could benefit from an operation, at least a full year of hormonal therapy is prescribed: estrogens and progestins to enlarge the breasts and soften the skin on men, and androgens to deepen the voices and stimulate beards on women...