title: Organ loss, grieving and itching.
abstract: This article offers a review of our understanding of the body image, the attack on it by surgical procedures, and the role of itching and scratching in the attempt to reconstruct a new and modified body image after physical alteration by organ loss has been effected.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001828:Body Image; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011537:Pruritus / Q000523:psychology*; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000523:psychology*