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Volume 3, Issue 5, September 2014

  • Effects of Psychotherapy on Patients Suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID)

    Katharina Kröger, Thomas Schnell, Erich Kasten

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 110-115
    Received: 28 July 2014
    Accepted: 18 August 2014
    Published: 30 August 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajap.20140305.11
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    Abstract: People suffering from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) feel the intense desire for a physical disability (e.g. amputation or palsy of a limb). The suffering is caused by a divergence between their intact real body and their desired mental self-image of a disabled person. Aim of this pilot-study was to answer the question, whether psychothera... Show More
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  • Body Integrity Identity Disorder and Mancophilia: Similarities and Differences

    Lea Pregartbauer, Thomas Schnell, Erich Kasten

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 5, September 2014
    Pages: 116-121
    Received: 5 October 2014
    Accepted: 20 October 2014
    Published: 30 October 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajap.20140305.12
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    Abstract: Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is characterized by the intense desire for some form of body impairment. Most often sufferers report wanting a healthy limb to be amputated. Currently most professionals classify this strange wish as an identity disturbance, but several BIID affected persons also speak of a sexual component when describing th... Show More
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