If you are a scholar seeking resources or simply wanting a more scientific article, please find links to academic journals below.

Seminal Papers:                                                                                                  

• Money, J., Jobaris, R., & Furth, G. (1977). Apotemnophilia: Two cases of self-demand amputation as a paraphilia. Journal of Sex Research, 13, 115–125. 

• First, M. B. (2005). Desire for amputation of a limb: Paraphilia, psychosis, or a new type of identity disorder. Psychological Medicine, 35, 919–928. 

• McGeoch, P. D., Brang, D., Song, T., Lee, R. R., Huang, M., & Ramachandran, V. S. (2011). Xenomelia: a new right parietal lobe syndrome. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.

Useful Review:                                                                                                     

• Sedda, A., & Bottini, G. (2014). Apotemnophilia, body integrity identity disorder or xenomelia? Psychiatric and neurologic etiologies face each other. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 10, 1255–1265.
  

If you are interested in reading more articles they can be found using the links below:  

• Apotemnophilia
• BIID
• Xenomelia

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