Genital self-mutilation in an attempt of suicide by a patient with a borderline personality

Self-mutilation acts are known to characterize the borderline personality disorders. However, voluntary cutting of the male genital organ remains extremely rare. The present paper reports a case of a 25-years-old young male with a borderline personality. The patient committed a genital self-mutilati...

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Autores principales: Aalouane, Rachid, Rammouz, Ismail, Hafidi, Hicham, Boujraf, Saïd
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3724308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23914106
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.112769
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description Self-mutilation acts are known to characterize the borderline personality disorders. However, voluntary cutting of the male genital organ remains extremely rare. The present paper reports a case of a 25-years-old young male with a borderline personality. The patient committed a genital self-mutilation (GSM) targeting suicide during incarceration stage in jail. In addition, a discussion of the epidemiological and psychopathological aspects of the self-mutilation of borderline patients was been conducted. A particular interest is attributed to the genital self-mutilation and a review of the literature is presented.
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spelling pubmed-37243082013-08-02 Genital self-mutilation in an attempt of suicide by a patient with a borderline personality Aalouane, Rachid Rammouz, Ismail Hafidi, Hicham Boujraf, Saïd J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Self-mutilation acts are known to characterize the borderline personality disorders. However, voluntary cutting of the male genital organ remains extremely rare. The present paper reports a case of a 25-years-old young male with a borderline personality. The patient committed a genital self-mutilation (GSM) targeting suicide during incarceration stage in jail. In addition, a discussion of the epidemiological and psychopathological aspects of the self-mutilation of borderline patients was been conducted. A particular interest is attributed to the genital self-mutilation and a review of the literature is presented. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3724308/ /pubmed/23914106 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.112769 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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