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|Author(s)=Susan A. Speer;
 
|Author(s)=Susan A. Speer;
 
|Title=Pursuing views and testing commitments: hypothetical questions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients
 
|Title=Pursuing views and testing commitments: hypothetical questions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients
|Editor(s)=Alice Freed; Susan Ehrlich;
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|Editor(s)=Alice F. Freed; Susan Ehrlich;
 
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Institutional talk; questions; transsexual; psychiatry; Medical EMCA
 
|Tag(s)=EMCA; Institutional talk; questions; transsexual; psychiatry; Medical EMCA
 
|Key=Speer2010
 
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|Year=2010
 
|Year=2010
 
|Address=Oxford
 
|Address=Oxford
|Booktitle=Why Do You Ask? The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
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|Booktitle=“Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
 
|Pages=133–158
 
|Pages=133–158
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|URL=https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.001.0001/acprof-9780195306897-chapter-7
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|DOI=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.003.0007
 
|ISBN=978-0-19-530689-7
 
|ISBN=978-0-19-530689-7
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|Abstract=This chapter, written by Susan Speer, considers the role of hypothetical questions (HQs) in interactions between psychiatrists and transsexual patients in a British gender identity clinic. The psychiatrists studied in this chapter perform a gatekeeping function vis‐à‐vis their transsexual patients in that they must diagnosis the patients as true transsexuals before the patients can receive publically funded sex reassignment surgery. Speers argues that the psychiatrists use hypothetical questions in this context as a diagnostic tool, specifically, as a way of testing the patients' commitment to a sex change. In particular, the psychiatrists use HQs to construct hypothetical scenarios about the negative consequences of treatment and query the patients as to how they would “feel, behave, or cope” given such a scenario.
 
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Speer2009a
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Speer2010
Author(s) Susan A. Speer
Title Pursuing views and testing commitments: hypothetical questions in the psychiatric assessment of transsexual patients
Editor(s) Alice F. Freed, Susan Ehrlich
Tag(s) EMCA, Institutional talk, questions, transsexual, psychiatry, Medical EMCA
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year 2010
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City Oxford
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Pages 133–158
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DOI 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195306897.003.0007
ISBN 978-0-19-530689-7
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Book title “Why Do You Ask?”: The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse
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Abstract

This chapter, written by Susan Speer, considers the role of hypothetical questions (HQs) in interactions between psychiatrists and transsexual patients in a British gender identity clinic. The psychiatrists studied in this chapter perform a gatekeeping function vis‐à‐vis their transsexual patients in that they must diagnosis the patients as true transsexuals before the patients can receive publically funded sex reassignment surgery. Speers argues that the psychiatrists use hypothetical questions in this context as a diagnostic tool, specifically, as a way of testing the patients' commitment to a sex change. In particular, the psychiatrists use HQs to construct hypothetical scenarios about the negative consequences of treatment and query the patients as to how they would “feel, behave, or cope” given such a scenario.

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