Desire for amputation of a limb: Paraphilia, psychosis, or a new type of identity disorder

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 919-928

  First, Michael B ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULT; AGED; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD; DEATH; DELUSION; FEMALE; HERMAPHRODITISM; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INTERVIEW; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEXUAL DEVIATION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; BODY IMAGE; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FETISHISM (PSYCHIATRIC); HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPHILIAS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 21044452747     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291704003320     Document Type: Article

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