Body integrity identity disorder crosses culture: case reports in the Japanese and Chinese literature
| Autor: | Takashi Nakamae, Sija J. van der Wal, Zhonglin Tan, Eske M. Derks, Rianne M. Blom, Nienke Vulink, Damiaan Denys |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Adult Psychiatry, Graduate School, ANS - Compulsivity, Impulsivity & Attention, APH - Amsterdam Public Health, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment
Apotemnophilia treatment cross-cultural comparison business.industry Chinese literature apotemnophilia medicine.disease Japanese literature Very early onset Cross-cultural studies 030227 psychiatry 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine amputation medicine Asian country phenomenology genetics Body integrity identity disorder business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Original Research Systematic search Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 12, 1419-1423. Dove Medical Press Ltd. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 12, 1419-1423. Dove Medical Press Ltd. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment |
| ISSN: | 1178-2021 1176-6328 |
| Popis: | Rianne M Blom,1 Nienke C Vulink,1 Sija J van der Wal,1 Takashi Nakamae,1–3 Zhonglin Tan,1,4 Eske M Derks,1 Damiaan Denys1,5 1Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 2Department of Psychiatry, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 3Department of Neural Computation for Decision-Making, ATR Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Kyoto, Japan; 4Department of Psychiatry, Hangzhou Mental Health Center, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 5Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Abstract: Body integrity identity disorder (BIID) is a condition in which people do not perceive a part of their body as their own, which results in a strong desire for amputation or paralyzation. The disorder is likely to be congenital due to its very early onset. The English literature describes only Western patients with BIID, suggesting that the disorder might be merely prevalent in the West. To scrutinize this assumption, and to extend our knowledge of the etiology of BIID, it is important to trace cases with BIID in non-Western populations. Our objective was to review Chinese and Japanese literature on BIID to learn about its presence in populations with a different genetic background. A systematic literature search was performed in databases containing Japanese and Chinese research, published in the respective languages. Five Japanese articles of BIID were identified which described two cases of BIID, whereas in the Chinese databases only BIID-related conditions were found. This article reports some preliminary evidence that BIID is also present in non-Western countries. However, making general statements about the biological background of the disorder is hampered by the extremely low number of cases found. This low number possibly resulted from the extreme secrecy associated with the disorder, perhaps even more so in Asian countries. Keywords: amputation, cross-cultural comparison, apotemnophilia, treatment, phenomenology, genetics |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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