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RESOURCES
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We provide resources to help learn more about cross dressing and related issues. Just click on the pages listed to the left.
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Articles/ Suggested Reading List
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The Tranvestic Career Path
www.tbuckner.com/TRANSVES.htm
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Article recommended by some crossdresserswives.com viewers: An Overview of Sex Addiction, From PsychCentral.com, http://psychcentral.com//lib/2006/an-overview-of-sex-addiction/, Author, Dorothy C. Hayden, LCSW
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The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.
December 22, 1997. Cairns, Kathleen V.
Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
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Bibliography
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Bentler, P.M., & Prince, C. (1969). Personality characteristics of male transvestites III. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 74 (2), 140-143.
Bramwell, D. (2007). Clarification of the distinctions between cross dressing and fetishism. Fetish, 16-17.
Bullough, V., & Weinberg, T. (1988a). Alienation, self-image and the importance of support groups for wives of transvestites. Journal of Sex Research, 24, 262-268.
Bullough, V., & Weinberg, T. (1988b). Women married to transvestites: Problems and adjustments. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 1, 83-104.
Cole, S.S. (1998). Current concepts in transgender identity, (pp.353-371). New York: Garland.
Dixon, J., & Dixon, D., (Eds.). (1991). Wives, partners and others: Living with crossdressing. Waltham, MA: Educational Resources.
DSM-IV-TR Case Studies: A Clinical Guide to Differential Diagnosis
DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for 302.3 Transvestic Fetishism.
Erhardt, V. (2007). Head over heels: wives who stay with cross-dressers and transexuals. Binghamton, New York: Hayworth Press.
Feinbloom, D.H. (1977). Tranvestites & transsexuals. New York: Dell.
Frances, A. & Ross, R. (2001). DSM-IV-TR case studies: a clinical guide to differential diagnosis, Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.
Frist, M.B., Frances, A. & Pincus, H.A. (2004). DSM-IV-TR guidebook. 1st ed. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.
Hirschfield, M. (1991). Transvestites. Buffalo: Prometheus Books.
Hunt, S., & Mayne, T. (1997). Sexual orientation confusion amoung spouses of transvestites and transsexuals following disclosure of the spouse's gender dysphoria. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexulaity, 9 (2), 39-51.
Prince, C.V., & Bentler, P.M. (1972). Survey of 504 cases of transvestism. Psychological Reports, 31 (3), 903-917.
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Books/ Suggested Reading List
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DSM-IV-TR GUIDEBOOK
Michael B. First, M.D., Allen Frances, M.D., Harold Alan Pincus, M.D.,
American Psychiatric Pubishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2004.
To order visit: www.appi.org
DSM-IV-TR CASE STUDIES: A CLINICAL GUIDE TO DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
Allen Frances, M.D., Ruth Ross, M.A.,
American Psychiatric Pubishing, Inc., Arlington, VA 2004.
To order visit: www.appi.org
HEAD OVER HEELS: WIVES WHO STAY WITH CROSS DRESSERS AND TRANSEXUALS
Virginia Erhardt, PhD,
The Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY 2007.
To order, call 1-800-429-6784 or outside the U.S. 1-607-722-5857
or email orders@HayworthPress.com
LIES AT THE ALTER: THE TRUTH ABOUT GREAT MARRIAGES
Dr. Robin L. Smith,
Hyperion, New York, NY 2006.
To order, call 1-212-456-0133
WIVES, PARTNERS AND OTHERS: LIVING WITH CROSS DRESSING, 1991 EDITION
Jan & Diane Dixon, Editors, International Foundation for Gender Education 1991.
To order, contact International Foundation for Gender Education,
P.O. Box 367, Wayland, Massachusetts 01778
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Films/ Suggested Viewing List
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Normal (2003) Director, Jane Anderson. A middle-aged husband comes out as a cross dresser, stunning his wife, child and community.
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994) Director, Stephan Elliott. Academy Award-winning Australian film about three drag queens (two gay men - one about to come out to his child - and a transsexual woman) driving across the outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a large bus they have christened Priscilla. This bawdy and often touching film offers insight into the complexities that can be involved in gender variancy.
The Secret (2006) Director, Drew Heriot. A documentary that discusses cutting-edge scientific research about making positive changes in your life. This is a fascinating film that can offer ways of dealing with
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995) Director, Beeban Kidron. A comedy about three drag queens on a cross-country road trip starring Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes.
Transamerica (2005) Director, Duncan Tucker. A transsexual male discovers he is a father when his clueless son calls searching for his dad. The timing could not be worse, as he is about to undergo a sex-change operation.
This website offers a list of transgender films with a brief explanations of each film's content: www.superliminal.com/melinda/tqmovies.htm
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Links/ Suggested Website List
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www.dr-aliceberkowitz.com
While we at CrossDressersWives.com may or may not agree with the following group's
philosophies, we want to provide as much information available to you on the net.
An Overview of Sex Addiction, From PsychCentral.com, http://psychcentral.com//lib/2006/an-overview-of-sex-addiction/,
Author, Dorothy C. Hayden, LCSW
http://familyofcrossdressers.freeforums.org/index.php
Laura's Playground promotes partners staying together through compromise.
http://www.lauras-playground.com/support_index.htm
Phi Epsilon Mu, the Florida chapter of Tri Ess, "helping wives of cross dressers to understand and cope." http://www.crossdressflorida.com/page2.html
The Los Angeles Gender Center offers individual, family and group counseling, clinical sexology, and help with sexual health and identity issues. 1923 1/2 Westwood Blvd. Suite #2, Los Angeles, CA 90025, 1-310-475-8880 www.lagendercenter.com
This site identifies five different intensities of gender dsyphoria, from cross dressing to transsexual. http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7Elucrisha/Watsontbl.html
This site offers support for wives of cross dressers struggling with issues pertaining to the Christian faith. http://www.realityresources.com/caregiver.htm
Tri Ess is a organization that offers a discussion group for "cross dresser's significant others" (CDSO). http://www.tri-ess.org/spice/CDSO/CDSO.htm
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