Genitalia self-mutilation commanded by hallucinations: a psychointensive case of Klingsor syndrome

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One of the world's rarest cases recorded up to date stands a case of hallucination influenced genitalia self-mutilation (GSM). There are just 13 cases recorded on PubMed till date. What and who is Klingsor? It was derived from the name of a character in Parsifal (a German opera) who had engaged in the act of self-castration for gaining entry into the prestige brotherhood of the Knights of the Holy Grail. In one of the first recorded cases in 1990, the author argued that the term 'Klingsor' be applied to all cases of GSM to patients of psychotic illness and not just religious conflicts.1 Some literatures call this syndrome as Skoptic syndrome.

Various surveys done by psychologists found psychosis beneath the cases of men carrying out autocastration. One of the most famous cases documented of Thomas Corbett, the man behind the assassination of John Wilkes Booth and...

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