TITLE:
Self-Genital Mutilation and Attempted Suicide by Cut Throat in the Same Patient at Presentation: A Rare Event
AUTHORS:
Senyo Gudugbe, Isaac Asiedu, Jonathan Lamptey, Mathew Y. Kyei, Kenneth Baidoo
KEYWORDS:
Self Genital Mutilation, Attempted Suicide, Cut Throat
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Psychiatry,
Vol.5 No.4,
October
9,
2015
ABSTRACT: Genital self-mutilation is
an uncommon event that is commonly associated with psychotic disorders. Such
injuries have also been reported secondary to complex religious beliefs and
delusions regarding sexual guilt. Even though few case reports of male genital
self-mutilation are available in literature, it israreto have a combined self-genital
mutilation and attempted suicide by cut throat occurring in the same patient at
presentation. We presented the case of a 38-yr-old male who presented to the
accident and emergency centre of a tertiary hospital in Accra, Ghana.