Apotemnophilia, body integrity identity disorder or xenomelia? Psychiatric and neurologic etiologies face each other
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Apotemnophilia, body integrity identity disorder or xenomelia? Psychiatric and neurologic etiologies face each other
This review summarizes the available studies of a rare condition in which individuals seek the amputation of a healthy limb or desire to be paraplegic. Since 1977, case reports and group studies have been produced, trying to understand the cause of this unusual desire. The main etiological hypotheses are presented, from the psychological/psychiatric to the most recent neurologic explanation. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1178-2021
DOI: 10.2147/ndt.s53385