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.
