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2356 – Case Report: Autoamputation Of The Penis In a Patient With Shizophrenia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2020
Abstract
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder that often manifests itself as chronic, serious mental illness which primarily affects one's ability to think, coupled with impaired perception of reality, which causes a change in behavior followed by unpleasant sensations. The following case report describes an act of genital self mutilation. An employed, unmarried male suffering from schizophrenia, auto castrated his genitalia during a period of illness. Psychotic patients with delusions (often of religious nature), sexual conflict associated with guilt, past suicide attempts or other self-destructive behavior and depression, severe childhood deprivation, and major premorbid personality disorder, are the group at risk of genital self-amputation. The objective of this case study is to gain a better understanding of the consequences of certain symptoms of schizophrenia, however rare and bizarre they might be.
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- European Psychiatry , Volume 28 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 21th European Congress of Psychiatry , 2013 , 28-E1484
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- Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2012
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