Open AccessPresentation 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
Author(s) -
Wilcox Vanden Berg Rand N.,
Gaffney Christopher D.,
Paduch Darius A.
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.2935
Subject(s) - gender dysphoria , emasculation , presentation (obstetrics) , medicine , acute psychosis , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , dysphoria , sex organ , psychosis , phalloplasty , clinical psychology , transgender , psychology , anxiety , psychoanalysis , surgery , ecology , pollen , genetics , pollination , biology , penis
Abstract 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.