There would be many other relevant publications/books but I found the following articles/books very enlightening as I researched my unusual habit endeavoring to make sense of it all.
Author: Pete Walker
The Tao of Fully Feeling
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
At different times, apart from my ongoing engagement with my psychologist, I also engaged with the following services:
- Mayo Clinic Employees and Learners / Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being programs and resources program
- The Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery
- Annie Wright / Relational Trauma Recovery Specialist
- Psychology Today: Clinical Psychologist / Sexologist Support
As well, the following links:
Borderline Personality Disorder, Trauma, and Compulsive Foreign Body Insertion (Polyembolokoilamania) in a 62-Year-Old Patient
BPD, Trauma, and Polyembolokoilamania: A Case Study Analysis - medtigo Journal
Inner Child, Inner Parent, Inner Adult
Psychology Talk and the 3 Parts that Make up Our Inner Selves
Emotional Dysregulation / Rectal Polyembolokoilamania sites relevant to my personal research
Insertion of Foreign Bodies (polyembolokoilamania): Underpinnings and Management Strategies:
Insertion of Foreign Bodies (polyembolokoilamania): Underpinnings and Management Strategies - PMC
A website, part of the Self-Injury & Recovery Resources research program at Cornell University, summarizes their work and provides links and resources to self injury information.
The Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery
What is emotion regulation and how do we do it?
https://www.selfinjury.bctr.cornell....info-brief.pdf
Foreign Body (FB) Insertion is a Common Presentation in
Emergency Surgery and Gastroenterology:
https://www.clinicsinsurgery.com/ope...ology-3820.pdf
**** manipulation as a source of sexual pleasure:
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3...58697678010024
Rectal Foreign Bodies: Surgical Management and the Impact of Psychiatric Illness:
https://www.cureus.com/articles/1031...iatric-illness
Successful Retrieval of a Retained Rectal Foreign Body in the Emergency Department:
https://www.cureus.com/articles/9941...ncy-department