Citation

Libbon R, Hamalian G, Yager J. J. Nerv. Ment. Dis. 2015; 203(2): 152-153.

Affiliation

*Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora; and †Denver Health Hospital, Colorado.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/NMD.0000000000000252

PMID

25629666

Abstract

Only nine previous cases of self- or auto-cannibalism (autosarcophagy) have previously been reported in the literature. Here, we report a 29-year-old man with psychosis and a history of polysubstance use who presented after his second attempt to self-cannibalize. This case raises questions about the underlying causes and dynamics of self-cannibalism in psychiatric illness and its relation to other types of self-harm behavior.

Language: en