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Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Tattooing and Bizarre Sexual Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard Caplan ,
Judith Komaromi  and
Mike Rhodes
Richard Caplan*
Affiliation:
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow G51 4TF
Judith Komaromi
Affiliation:
Lincoln County Hospital
Mike Rhodes
Affiliation:
Lincoln County Hospital, Lincoln LN2 5QY
*
Dr R. Caplan, Southern General Hospital, 1345 Govan Road, Glasgow G51 4TF
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Abstract

Background

A case is presented describing an association between obsessive–compulsive disorder, tattooing and unusual sexual practices.

Method

A single case report.

Conclusions

Tattooing and unusual sexual practices are compulsive behaviours associated with the subject's obsessive–compulsive disorder. Such associations have not previously been described in the literature.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 168 , Issue 3 , March 1996 , pp. 379 - 380
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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