Came across this old episode of BBC Horizon today, full video available at the Internet Archive. The episode summary and transcript are available here and the basic gist is that a documentary crew followed around an American woman named Corinne and a middle-aged psychotherapist named Gregg as they sought out a surgical solution to the problem of having two healthy legs.
The consulting psychiatrist is a fellow named Russell ReidWP, who would go on to get in a spot of bother with the General Medical Council. Reid is careful to point out that these patients are neither delusional nor psychotic:
He does call their condition a disorder, however.
It would be fascinating (IMO) to see how these patients have gotten on all these years later.
The consulting psychiatrist is a fellow named Russell ReidWP, who would go on to get in a spot of bother with the General Medical Council. Reid is careful to point out that these patients are neither delusional nor psychotic:
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These people are not mentally ill in the sense of having a serious mental illness or psychosis. They're not hearing voices, they're not deluded. It's not as if some force is telling them to have their limb off and they're following their paranoid delusion to do that. If that were the case then they would be psychotic, but they're not like that. |
It would be fascinating (IMO) to see how these patients have gotten on all these years later.
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