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A bit late, by some 80 years, this 1991 English translation of Magnus Hirsch-feld's German-written 1910 Die Transvestiten, is nonetheless a welcome addition to psychiatry and psychiatric history. And it comes complete, except for an index found in the original. Hirschfeld not only studied the transvestite syndrome but also gave it its name.
The text is divided into three parts: part one consists of 17 transvestite case histories, 16 of them male and 1 female, and a study of their symptomatology; part two gives a closer examination of the cases, such as their relationship to