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Putting Your Own Body Image into Perspective

Will Swift on March 30, 2014

We all have problems with our body images, but some people suffer from a life-long desire to become physically disabled. There is great controversy about whether amputation is an ethical therapeutic treatment for high-functioning people who have been screened by mental health professionals and who have been shown not to be psychotic.

We all have problems with our body images, but some people suffer from a life-long desire to become physically disabled. There is great controversy about whether amputation is an ethical therapeutic treatment for high-functioning people who have been screened by mental health professionals and who have been shown not to be psychotic.