Genital Self-mutilation in a Case of First Episode Psychosis

Genital self-mutilation (GSM) is a much rare finding and more commonly associated with psychosis when it comes to comparison with self-mutilation as a whole. There have been anecdotal case reports of GSM in psychotic disorders with most of them being in long standing psychoses. We describe herein a...

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Autores principales: Khandelwal, Anuj, Chauhan, Khushboo, De Sousa, Avinash, Sonavane, Sushma, Pawar, Alka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27570352
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.185951
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description Genital self-mutilation (GSM) is a much rare finding and more commonly associated with psychosis when it comes to comparison with self-mutilation as a whole. There have been anecdotal case reports of GSM in psychotic disorders with most of them being in long standing psychoses. We describe herein a case of GSM during the first episode of psychosis where multiple phenomenological variables were seen responsible for the act.
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spelling pubmed-49809082016-08-26 Genital Self-mutilation in a Case of First Episode Psychosis Khandelwal, Anuj Chauhan, Khushboo De Sousa, Avinash Sonavane, Sushma Pawar, Alka Indian J Psychol Med Case Report Genital self-mutilation (GSM) is a much rare finding and more commonly associated with psychosis when it comes to comparison with self-mutilation as a whole. There have been anecdotal case reports of GSM in psychotic disorders with most of them being in long standing psychoses. We describe herein a case of GSM during the first episode of psychosis where multiple phenomenological variables were seen responsible for the act. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4980908/ /pubmed/27570352 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.185951 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Indian Psychiatric Society 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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