2016/01/01 by V. S. Chauhan, Prateek Yadav, Sunil Goyal +1 · 1 citation
Medicine · Psychology · #Genital Health and Disease #Urological Disorders and Treatments #Sexual function and dysfunction studies #Feeling #Sex organ #Eponym #Psychology #Depression (economics) #Psychiatry #Clinical psychology #Medicine #Social psychology
paper · doi:10.4103/0972-6748.207854
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/06
Male genital self-mutilation (GSM) is a rare but serious phenomenon. Some of the risk factors for this act are the presence of religious delusions, command hallucinations, low self-esteem, and feelings of guilt associated with sexual offences. Other risk factors include failures in the male role, problems in the early developmental period, such as experiencing difficulties in male identification and persistence of incestuous desires, depression, and having a history of GSM. The eponym Klingsor Syndrome, which involves the presence of religious delusions, is proposed for GSM. Psychiatric case reports of male GSM in the literature are rare and mostly anecdotal.