Talk:Harry Benjamin
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[edit] Overdue Expansion
I'm expanding (presently there's is only an intermediate save in place) this biography using all the references I can find on the Web, plus what seems reliable (ie collaborated) that I have been told in conversations and email exchanges with Benjamin's former patients. In fact his book, his papers, interviews, and publications by some of his collaborators provide quite a rich source with few conflicts.
I'm working on more about how he developed his practice originally, his collaborators and colleagues and correspondents, and more on early Sexology. And more flesh generally.
My motivation is that Benjamin certainly saved the life of a woman who is one of my best-loved friends, who was a transsexual child. Obviously that then faces me with a challenge in being NPOV. But since it is HB as the subject, NOT what others have later made of his thoughts or methods, the other POVs are, as far as I can see, since nobody seems to have had anything bad to say about him personally, the alternative ways of handling the conditions he dealt with. And I've included a fair bit on that already.
It would be nice to include that B&W picture of him at his desk in New York in the 1950s, which Humbolt Uni have on their site, but I'm not sure of the copyright. The picture of him with his mother would be OK copyright-wise, being like 1905, but him in cadet uniform as a youth is hardly representative.
I'm looking for more on his marriage and how and where they lived, and his New York practice (like addresses, and more on the range of patients), and what products or preparations he normally used (in addition to, or before Premarin). If anyone wants to send them to me/post them anonymously, that would be more than fine. --Bluegreen 5 July 2005 20:35 (UTC)
[edit] Trichophilia
"Harry Benjamin was also a hair fetishist" - posted by 71.34.2.142. Any evidence to support this? - Pete C ✍ 08:19, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
