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An Overwhelming Desire to Be Blind: Similarities and Differences between Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Wish for Blindness

BACKGROUND: The urge to be permanently blind is an extremely rare mental health disturbance. The underlying cause of this desire has not been determined yet, and it is uncertain whether the wish for blindness is a condition that can be included in the context of body integrity identity disorder, a c...

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Autores principales: Gutschke, Katja, Stirn, Aglaja, Kasten, Erich
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5465715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28611645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000456709