Citation

Cesnik JA, Coleman E. Am. J. Psychother. 1989; 43(2): 277-286.

Affiliation

Department of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1989, Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2502035

Abstract

We report the successful use of lithium carbonate to promptly extinguish life-threatening behavior in a case of autoerotic asphyxia occurring in a 26-year-old male. In addition to his paraphilia, the patient met the DSM-III-R criteria for dysthymia, and had an avoidant personality disorder secondary to verbal, physical and sexual abuse inflicted during childhood and adolescence.

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