Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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by Sean - 30 December 2011
I recently went to a funeral. The deceased had commited suicide. I was rather depressed before I heard of the suicide to begin with – going there was a rather interesting experience.
Funeral and Life continues »
by Sean - 10 December 2011
Some guy in Seattle chopped his arm off with a homemade guillotine. He refuses to have it reattached. There’s a blurb in the papers about it from AP. A journalist has contacted me wanting to do a phone interview.
Guy Chops Arm Off With Homemade Guillotine – Is It BIID? continues »
by Sean - 7 December 2011
I’m on a roll talking about recent academic papers discussing BIID. Today I’d like to discuss the best article in an academic journal I’ve seen in a very long time: Body Integrity Identity Disorder: The Persistent Desire to Acquire a Physical Disability, by Michael First and Carl Fisher.
BIID: The Persistent Desire to Acquire a Physical Disability continues »
by Sean - 5 December 2011
There are a whole bunch of new journal articles that have come out in recent weeks about Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID). The second paper I wanted to discuss briefly is Xenomelia: A new parietal lobe syndrome by Paul McGeoch, David Brang, Tao Song, Roland Lee, Mingxiong Huang, and VS Ramachandran.
Xenomelia: a new right parietal lobe syndrome continues »
by Sean - 25 November 2011
There have been several new academic papers coming out about BIID recently. I will talk about them in the next few weeks. The first paper I would like to mention is Demographics, Learning and Imitation, and Body Schema in Body Integrity Identity Disorder by Alicia Johnson, Sook-Lei Liew, and Lisa Aziz-Zadeh.
Demographics, Learning and Imitation, and Body Schema in BIID continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2012 - All Rights Reserved.