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Presentation and resolution of gender dysphoria as a positive symptom in a young schizophrenic man who presented with self-emasculation: Frontiers of bioethics, psychiatry, and microsurgical genital reconstruction.
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SUBMITTER: Wilcox Vanden Berg RN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7495809 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Presentation and resolution of gender dysphoria as a positive symptom in a young schizophrenic man who presented with self-emasculation: Frontiers of bioethics, psychiatry, and microsurgical genital reconstruction.
Clinical case reports 20200728 9
Gender dysphoria can present as a positive symptom of schizophrenia. Completion of gender affirmation surgeries should not occur as a result of male genital self-mutilation via a deferral of emergent surgical reconstruction. Instead, gender affirmation should be considered after a full workup and assessment for resolution of any acute psychosis. ...[more]
