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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19132621
"Neurological results suggest that BIID is a brain disorder producing a disruption of the body image, for which parallels for stroke patients are known. If BIID were a neuropsychological disturbance, which includes missing insight into the illness and a specific lack of autonomy, then amputations would be contraindicated and must be evaluated as bodily injuries of mentally disordered patients. Instead of only curing the symptom, a causal therapy should be developed to integrate the alien limb into the body image."
"Neurological results suggest that BIID is a brain disorder producing a disruption of the body image, for which parallels for stroke patients are known. If BIID were a neuropsychological disturbance, which includes missing insight into the illness and a specific lack of autonomy, then amputations would be contraindicated and must be evaluated as bodily injuries of mentally disordered patients. Instead of only curing the symptom, a causal therapy should be developed to integrate the alien limb into the body image."
1. The option of amputation depends upon if the desire to amputate is an autonomous decision or an obsessive desire. If amputation is not an autonomous decision, as current psychological understanding indicates, then it should not be performed.
2. The option of amputation depends upon being the only effective therapy. The success of amputation has not be proven outside of anecdotes, some post-amputee sufferers continue to amputate further, and several other therapies have shown some success.
The conclusion is that because of these two points, amputation is not recommended as therapy.
Originally posted by Dante
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