Citation

Blacha C, Schmid MM, Gahr M, Freudenmann RW, Plener PL, Finter F, Connemann BJ, Schonfeldt-Lecuona C. J. Addict. Med. 2013; 7(1): 83-84.

Affiliation

From the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III (CB, MMS, MG, RWF, BJC, CS-L), Urology(FF), and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (PLP), University of Ulm, Germany.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/ADM.0b013e318279737b

PMID

23222128

Abstract

BACKGROUND:: Genital self-mutilation is a well-known phenomenon in patients with schizophrenia and has occasionally been described in patients with personality disorders or transsexuality. However, literature just provides few cases of genital self-mutilation related to the use of psychotropic substances. CASE DESCRIPTION:: A previously mentally healthy man (age, 32 years) performed manual amputation of both testes after first use of lysergic acid diethylamide in combination with alcohol consumption. Follow-up examination 6 month after the event did not reveal the development of a psychiatric disorder. CONCLUSIONS:: This report shows that a first and single use of lysergic acid diethylamide in combination with alcohol can cause intoxication with dramatic consequences.

Language: en