Lil Red Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 +J.M.J.+ [url="http://www.firstthings.com/blog_entry.php?blog_id=6&year=2009&month=05&title_link=cutting-off-healthy-limbs-to-treat-biid-coming-closer-to-reality-1243365311"]Link here[/url] [quote]There is nothing these days that can ever be safely considered to be permanently beyond the pale, unthinkable, flat-out undoable--and that apparently includes cutting off healthy limbs of patients with BIID. When I first heard of body integrity identity disorder--BIID--in which sufferers have a powerful compulsion to become amputees (hence the nickname for the term, "amputee wannabe"), the idea that cutting off healthy limbs would ever be considered a legitimate treatment option seemed ridiculous. No longer. An influential psychiatrist is using the power of analogy to push us toward that very end.[/quote] [url="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520811,00.html"]http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520811,00.html[/url] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Well, if they are going to do it, wonder if they could use them for transplant? I don't even know what to say about something this bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Bone _ Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Is that any different than gender reassignment surgery? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Ridiculous. These people need psychiatrists, not chop doctors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I was just talking about this with my husband. I said that once we said gender identity wasn't a psychological illness and started treating it like a physical problem that could be fixed, we opened ourselves up to all sorts of this kind of stuff. I then said that next, people would be having surgery to become hermaphrodites instead of just changing from one gender to another. He informed me that they already do that surgery in Canada. When did we decide that anything goes, that nothing is wrong or shameful, no matter what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissScripture Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 [quote name='T-Bone _' post='1876300' date='May 27 2009, 12:13 AM']Is that any different than gender reassignment surgery?[/quote] My thoughts exactly... [quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1876310' date='May 27 2009, 12:21 AM']Ridiculous. These people need psychiatrists, not chop doctors. [/quote] well, since chop doctors are what their psychiatrists are suggesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 [quote name='MissScripture' post='1876335' date='May 26 2009, 11:38 PM']well, since chop doctors are what their psychiatrists are suggesting...[/quote] My mistake... they need psychiatrists who deserve their degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galloglasses' Alt Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 [quote name='Nihil Obstat' post='1876349' date='May 26 2009, 11:47 PM']My mistake... they need psychiatrists who deserve their degrees. [/quote] Does that sub-species of shrinks even exist anymore? I thought they went extinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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