ReviewNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2014
Apotemnophilia, body integrity identity disorder or xenomelia? Psychiatric and neurologic etiologies face each other.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- The hidden side of body integrity dysphoria: aberrant limbic responses to dynamic touch.Brain communications · 2025Article
- Brain Abnormalities in Individuals with a Desire for a Healthy Limb Amputation: Somatosensory, Motoric or Both? A Task-Based fMRI Verdict.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Differences in the Psychological, Sexual, and Childhood Experiences Among Men with Extreme Interests in Voluntary Castration.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- Could Brain-Computer Interface Be a New Therapeutic Approach for Body Integrity Dysphoria?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
- An Investigation of Lower Limb Representations Underlying Vision, Touch, and Proprioception in Body Integrity Identity Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Mental rotation of feet in individuals with Body Integrity Identity Disorder, lower-limb amputees, and normally-limbed controls.PloS one · 2019Article
- Body integrity identity disorder crosses culture: case reports in the Japanese and Chinese literature.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2016Article
- The Desire for Amputation or Paralyzation: Evidence for Structural Brain Anomalies in Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID).PloS one · 2016Article
- An Overwhelming Desire to Be Blind: Similarities and Differences between Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Wish for Blindness.Case reports in ophthalmologyArticle
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Abstract
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. The paradigms adopted and the clinical features are compared across studies and analyzed in detail. Finally, future directions and ethical implications are discussed. A proposal is made to adopt a multidisciplinary approach that comprises state-of-the-art technologies and a variety of theoretical models, including both body representation and psychological and sexual components.
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