Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability!
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by Sean - 21 April 2009
Do you have Body Integrity Identity Disorder? Do you need to be paralysed, blind, or deaf? If you do, please participate in Dr. Michael First’s follow-up study. You can phone him at 212-543-5524 (USA number) or e-mail him at mbf2@columbia.edu. We need to understand BIID better, and Dr. First is working towards that. Please help him help us.
Do Your Bit For BIID continues »
by Sean - 28 March 2007
A recent post I made on this site and a Yahoo! discussion group prompted a lot of discussion and brought up the nearly age old question of “Does BIID include anyone who wants a different condition than being an amputee?”. I maintain that it doesn’t matter what condition is sought, we all suffer from BIID. Some agree. Others disagree. Others yet are quite vehement in their refusal to have BIID include anything else than “amputation”. And so I decided to go to the source. I emailed Dr. Michael First, who coined the term Body Integrity Identity Disorder.
An email exchange with Dr. First about BIID. continues »© transabled.org - 1994-2010 - All Rights Reserved.