I did not believe in content warnings until I wrote this article. I figured that adults should be able to manage the simple act of reading a report of an academic paper without too much difficulty. But if you have apotemnophobia, you might want to skip this one, as it really is the stuff of nightmares.
Because many websites track what we read to make suggestions and drive our engagement, every now and again I will get an automated email recommending a new paper on gender that I had not heard anyone discuss so far.
Since at least the curious accident which Phineas Gage endured in , psychiatry has made use of the individual case study. I wish it were true that academic journals were reliable sources which carried out due diligence on the case studies they publish. Since wishful thinking is not sufficient, I will have to prefix this article with the admission that the case study related by Kasten has not been independently verified by me.
The anonymous patient's story in this case study could be true. It could be a hoax intended to expose the deficiencies and credulity of academia on gender extremism. It could also be masochistic fan fiction. The contemporary gender Weltanschauung is such that any seriously deluded act seems plausible. I had long been curious about the distinction between body dysmorphic disorder BDD , body integrity disorder BID , body integrity identity disorder BIID , all referring to a preoccupation with self-perceived corporeal defects, and gender dysphoria.
With poor insight: The individual thinks that the body dysmorphic disorder beliefs are probably true. The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorder, by a Disease of the Nervous System or by another medical condition, or by Malingering. It is just not the same, okay? It is not even defined as a subset of the BID category focused on sexual characteristics.
