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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

Z. Štimac
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
L. Bagarić
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
B.J. Godan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
M. Jakovljević
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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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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