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Glossary

Written by Sean on Wednesday, April 26, 2006

The following list of terms was found on biid.org. We (transabled.org) do not necessarily agree with the definition or usage of those terms. They are presented “as is”, for the sake of the biid.org archive.

{mospagebreak title=Acrotomophilia}

Acrotomophilia (or acrotometophilia):

[from the Greek, akron, extremity + tomo, a cutting + -philia- word ending meaning love, or erotic and sexual love of a person, thing, or activity]

1. a paraphilia of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on a partner who is an amputee . An acrotomophile is erotically excited by the stump(s) of the amputee partner.
2. the condition of being dependent on the appearance or fantasy of one’s partner as an amputee in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm.
3. a liking of an amputated extremity or are attracted to a person who has an amputation. These people are also termed Devs or Devotees.The reciprocal paraphilic condition, namely self-amputation, is apotemnophilia

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{mospagebreak title=Apotemnophilia}

Apotemnophilia

[From the Greekapo-  from + temnein- to cut + -philia- word ending meaning love, or erotic and sexual love of a person, thing, or activity]

A paraphilic fixation of the stigmatic/eligibilic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to and contingent on being oneself an amputee. These people are often termed Wannabes. The reciprocal paraphilic condition in which the partner is an amputee is acrotomophilia or acrotmetophilia (the liking of an amputated extremity); the condition of sexuoerotic arousal being contingent on having an amputee partner, or fantasizing about an amputee, in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm.

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{mospagebreak title=Body Dysmorphic Disorder}

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Preoccupation with a real or imagined defect in body appearance may lead to diagnosis of this Somatoform Disorder. If a slight physical anomaly is present, the person’s concern is markedly excessive. The preoccupation causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The preoccupation is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., dissatisfaction with body shape and size in Anorexia Nervosa).

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BIID (Body Integrity Identity Disorder)

A psychological condition in which the individual requests an elective amputation. Individuals with this condition experience the persistent desire to have their body physically match the idealized image they have of themselves.

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Gender Identity Disorder (Transexualism)

1. A strong and persistent cross-gender identification (not merely a desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex). In adolescents and adults, the disturbance is manifested by symptoms such as a stated desire to be the other sex, frequent passing as the other sex, desire to live or be treated as the other sex, or the conviction that he or she has the typical feelings and reactions of the other sex.
2. Persistent discomfort with his or her sex or sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex. In adolescents and adults, the disturbance is manifested by symptoms such as preoccupation with getting rid of primary and secondary sex characteristics (e.g., request for hormones, surgery, or other procedures to physically alter sexual characteristics to simulate the other sex) or belief that he or she was born the wrong sex.
3. The disturbance is not concurrent with a physical intersex condition.
4. The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

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Depression

We often compare the psychiatric symptom depression or depressed mood to sadness or grief in response to a loss, but one of the essential features is loss of interest in life activities. The term is used interchangeably to refer to a mental disorder or to a mood state or symptom.

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{mospagebreak title=Devotee}

Devotee (Dev, Admirer)

See Acromotophilia above

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Factitious Disorder

Patients with this disorder are so eager to assume the role of a sick person that they intentionally feign or produce symptoms. External incentives for the behavior (such as economic gain, avoiding legal responsibility, or improving physical well-being, as in malingering) are absent. The main criteria for defining this disorder is the intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms. The motivation for these patients is to assume the sick role and be care for.

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Paraphilias

These mental disorders are characterized by sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving non-human objects (Fetishism, Transvestic Fetishism), suffering or humiliation (Sexual Sadism, Masochism), children (Pedophilia) or other non-consenting person (Voyeurism, Frotteurism, Exhibitionism).

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{mospagebreak title=Personality Disorder}

Personality Disorder

An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture. This pattern is manifested in two (or more) of the following areas:

(1) cognition (i.e., ways of perceiving and interpreting self, other people, and events)
(2) affectivity (i.e., the range, intensity, lability, and appropriateness of emotional response)
(3) interpersonal functioning
(4) impulse control

The enduring pattern is inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations.  The enduring pattern leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. The pattern is stable and of long duration and its onset can be traced back at least to adolescence or early adulthood. The enduring pattern is not better accounted for as a manifestation or consequence of another mental disorder. The enduring pattern is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., a drug of abuse, a medication) or a general medical condition (e.g., head trauma).

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Pretender

A pretender is an individual who ties or binds up a limb and plays the role of an amputee, perhaps using crutches The term may be applicable to those who desire to be a brace user or a different disability. A pretender may or may not also be a Wannabe or BIID Sufferer

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Psychosis

A fundamental mental derangement (as Schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality. The patient has at least one of the following that is not a culturally sanctioned response: Delusions, hallucinations, speech that is markedly disorganized or behavior that is markedly disorganized or catatonic.

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{mospagebreak title=Schizophrenia}

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is now used to describe a cluster of symptoms that typically includes the following: Delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking and emotional unresponsiveness.

Because symptoms of schizophrenia arise from various physical processes and respond differently to treatments, some experts recommend classifying the disease based on the presence of the following symptom groups: Negative symptoms (including apathy and social withdrawal), psychotic symptoms, disordered thinking. (Some experts group psychotic and disordered thinking in a single category called positive symptoms.)

The disease is complicated by the fact that although a schizophrenic patient may have more than one symptom, he or she rarely has all of them. Symptoms also often go into remission. As the mechanisms in the brain that lead to schizophrenia are being discovered, researchers are attempting to define more accurate ways of describing the disease as it relates to the biologic processes that cause them.

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{mospagebreak title=Wannabe}

Wannabe

See Apotemnophilia above

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