Self Mutilation - Complications
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

How repeated 15-minute assertiveness training sessions reduce wrist cutting in patients with borderline personality disorder.

30 Dec 2008 OBJECTIVE: The aim of this work was to examine a possible treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder who have wrist-cutting syndrome, a condition characterized by repeated, superficial wrist cutting in a non-suicidal fashion. Within ... Read more...

Dissociation, self-cutting, and other self-harm behavior in a general population of Finnish adolescents.

29 Sep 2008 A few studies on adult clinical samples have demonstrated that dissociation predicts self-harm behavior without intent to die. Furthermore, a similar association has been found from selected adolescent populations. However, no studies have been ... Read more...

Autoenucleation in a 84-year-old dementia patient.

8 Apr 2008 BACKGROUND: Autoenucleation is a severe, rare form of self-mutilation. The majority of cases have been reported in the 15- to 60-year age group, usually in psychiatric patients with a history of depression or schizophrenia, sometimes caused by drug ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Self Mutilation - Complications'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Adolescents' scarifications: which meanings?] 30 May 2009
• [Scarification: a sociologist point of view] 30 May 2009
• How repeated 15-minute assertiveness training sessions reduce wrist cutting in patients with borderline personality disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• Dissociation, self-cutting, and other self-harm behavior in a general population of Finnish adolescents. 29 Sep 2008
• Autoenucleation in a 84-year-old dementia patient. 8 Apr 2008
• [Electroconvulsive therapy for multiple major self-mutilations in bipolar psychotic depression] 30 Dec 2007
• Dental mutilations and associated alveolar bone pathology in African skulls of the anthropological skull collection, Charité, Berlin. 30 Dec 2007
• Medical images. Cardiac stab injury. 12 Dec 2007
• Nasal manifestations of self-destructive behaviour. 29 Nov 2007
• Self-mutilation of the nose in a schizophrenic patient with Cotard syndrome. 29 Sep 2007
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage and vasospastic stroke after self-enucleation. 30 Aug 2007
• [Penile injury caused by a Moulinette. Result of autoerotic self-mutilation] 29 Jun 2007
• Tooth and lip mutilation practices and associated tooth loss and oral mucosal lesions in the Makonde People of southeast Tanzania. 30 Mar 2007
• [Self-mutilation from a forensic medicine viewpoint] 30 Mar 2007
• An unusual case of self-inflicted penetrating needle injury to both eyes. 29 Nov 2006
• Chronic perforation of the urinary bladder by self-inserted foreign body. 24 Sep 2006
• Oxcarbazepine for self-mutilating bulimic patients. 6 Aug 2006
• Onychotillomania, major depressive disorder and suicide. 29 Jun 2006
• [Self-mutilation as a consequence of the perinatal brachial plexus palsy] 30 Dec 2005
• [Traumatic luxation of the testis due to self-mutilation: a case report] 30 Dec 2005

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Technical information about 'Self Mutilation'

Definition: The act of injuring one's own body to the extent of cutting off or permanently destroying a limb or other essential part of a body.

Descriptor UI: D012652

Alternative terms: Self Mutilation; Mutilation, Self;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C21.866.780; F01.145.126.980.750;

Technical Notes: SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR is also available