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Psychotectic therapy is a procedure consisting of a series of psychotectic treatments. It is used by the androgynous J'naii to eliminate all psychological elements of gender identity in the rare cases when that is necessary.

Even though there is a high success rate, if the individual is unwilling to admit having the urges, the treatments may not be succesful. It is commonly considered help among J'naii, as even totally reluctant deviants, who are treated, are afterwards greatful. As such the therapy also appears to be a form of mind control as it reverses the personal attitudes towards the deviant orientation from natural and wonderful to sick and terrible.

In 2368, ahe J'naii shuttle pilot Soren was forcibly given psychotectic therapy after confessing to an orientation of female gender identity and an attraction to USS Enterprise-D first officer William Riker. After the therapy, Soren was amazed to not have noticed the sickness of the deviant condition, and was sorry for Riker to have fallen in love. Soren had no desire to return to the prior orientation. (TNG: "The Outcast")

The Greek/Latin tec- (as in plate tectonics) means "covered", but the writers may have constructed the word "psychotectic" simply to sound exotic without meaning anything.
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