TITLE: 
                        
                            Self-Genital Mutilation and Attempted Suicide by Cut Throat in the Same Patient at Presentation: A Rare Event
                                
                                
                                    AUTHORS: 
                                            Senyo Gudugbe, Isaac Asiedu, Jonathan Lamptey, Mathew Y. Kyei, Kenneth Baidoo 
                                                    
                                                        KEYWORDS: 
                        Self Genital Mutilation, Attempted Suicide, Cut Throat 
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        JOURNAL NAME: 
                        Open Journal of Psychiatry,  
                        Vol.5 No.4, 
                        October
                                                        9,
                        2015
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        ABSTRACT: Genital self-mutilation is
an uncommon event that is commonly associated with psychotic disorders. Such
injuries have also been reported secondary to complex religious beliefs and
delusions regarding sexual guilt. Even though few case reports of male genital
self-mutilation are available in literature, it israreto have a combined self-genital
mutilation and attempted suicide by cut throat occurring in the same patient at
presentation. We presented the case of a 38-yr-old male who presented to the
accident and emergency centre of a tertiary hospital in Accra, Ghana.