Gocke Cansever
The late Gocke Cansever was a Turkish[1] medical psychologist who worked at the Bakırköy Psychiatric Hospital[WP], Robert College, Istanbul,[2] who did the first study of the effects of circumcision on boys in the early 1960s.[1]
Cansever (1965) administered psychological tests to twelve 5-to-7-year-old Turkish boys before and after Islamic circumcision and reported the results in her landmark paper, which was published in the British Journal of Medical Psychology in December 1965.
Publications
- Cansever G. Psychological effects of circumcision. Brit J Med Psychol. December 1965; 38(4): 321-31. PMID. DOI. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
References
- ↑ a b Gregg GS (2005):
Early Childhood
, in: The Middle East: A Cultural Psychology. 472 pages. Oxford: Oxford University Press. P. 201. ISBN 978-0195171990. Retrieved 3 October 2023. - ↑
Bakırköy Mental and Neurological Diseases Hospital
. Retrieved 2 October 2023.