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A Collection Of BIID Article In A New Book

Written by Sean on Monday, December 28, 2009

I recently received a new book with a collection of articles about Body Integrity Identity Disorder. I had written an article for it a while back. It is good to have such a book available. But I must admit I have yet to read more than a few of the articles. I am just getting too angry reading it.

The book is "Body Integrity Identity Disorder: Psychological, Neurobiological, Ethical and Legal Aspects" (2009. Stirn, A., Thiel, A., and Oddo, S eds. Pabst). There are 23 articles from researchers, psychiatrists, ethicists, as well as people who have BIID. I think it is a well rounded book by and large.

One thing that annoys me is that so many of the entries address the need to be an amputee, but not the need for other conditions, unless it’s as a footnote. But that’s a given. And hopefully it will be rectified when Dr. First publishes his follow-up study (he’s in the process of analysing the data at the moment).

Where I became angry is at the reminder of how the deck is stacked against us. It is late, and I need to re-read what I have already read, so I won’t go in depth about it. I can say that the articles by Michael First and Robert Smith are pretty much spot on (in my opinion). Yet, there is a lot of anger at the reminder that surgeons aren’t "allowed" do provide surgery for BIID. Or at the idea that "surgery hasn’t been shown to work", hence surgery can’t be recommended. There is hope at the mention that a study of people who have managed to aquire their needed impairment will be happening in the future.

I’ll have to write more about this book once I’ve read more about it!

Tags: BIID, Dr. First, Surgery

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