It is the story of a mother whose son, suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder, only left his room to take a shower, which he repeated five times a day.
After a consultation at the Tavistock clinic in London, the teenager was immediately considered by practitioners as a woman before being prescribed an appointment with an endocrinologist (hormonal specialist) to begin a process of sex change.
The son refused treatment only to later find out he was gay.
This account is one of the many testimonies which feeds the exceptional investigation of the journalist Hannah Barnes - exceptional, because the surgical meticulousness with which is documented her book of 557 pages
Time to Think
(It is time to reflect) finally allows to reveal one of the greatest medical scandals of recent decades.
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