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Rachel Barnes¹

¹University Hospital of Wales, UK. rachelbarnes00@hotmail.com

The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds

|October 15, 2011

Abstract:

Apotemnophilia is a condition where sufferers wish to be an amputee. Currently, belief in the medical profession is that it is part of the spectrum of body dysmorphic disorder and as such patients are denied surgical correction. This can lead sufferers to extreme lengths. Proponents seek to have the disorder reclassified to a body identity integrity disorder such as gender identity disorder. In this way treatment modalities could be reassessed.

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