Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder – Just another disability!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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by Sean - 14 September 2010
Every once in a while, you hear about people who self-amputate toes or fingers, repeatedly. This creeps people out. It also gives people who don’t have BIID the impression that acquiring the impairment we need won’t be enough. But I think these people are not good representative of Body Integrity Identity Disorder. Or the experience itself isn’t representative.
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by Sean - 28 April 2010
I have been approached by a PhD student out of Texas, who wants to use material from the site for a paper she is working on. She is asking if we are ok with her use of the material on this site. I am, but she does want to ask if anyone’s uncomfortable about their writing being part of the research. I offered for her to pose her question directly.
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