self-castration syndrome obsolete medical term Skoptic syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skoptic_syndrome https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1353353 A condition in which a person is preoccupied with or engages in genital self-mutilation. Skoptic syndrome does not appear in DSM-5 and is virtually nonexistent in psychological literature. It is also important to notice that the term, along with gender identity disorder (GID), can and is also used to imply "minority mainstream view/practices" without negatively implying dysfunction or "wrongness", nor is it applicable to all people with a desire for castration, due to the highly diverse nature of reasons for volunteer castration.