Self Mutilation - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

From feeling too little and too much, to feeling more and less? A nonparadoxical theory of the functions of self-harm.

29 Apr 2009 It is widely agreed that one of the functions of self-harm by cutting or burning the body is to regulate emotion. There is an apparent paradox in the emotion-regulative function of self-harm: some people are using self-harm to both increase and ... Read more...

Descriptions of help by Finnish adolescents who self-mutilate.

30 Jan 2009 PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to describe help from the viewpoint of self-mutilating Finnish adolescents. METHODS: Methodological triangulation was used in data collection. Written descriptions were provided by 62 self-mutilating adolescents ... Read more...

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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Self Mutilation - Psychology'

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
• From feeling too little and too much, to feeling more and less? A nonparadoxical theory of the functions of self-harm. 29 Apr 2009
• Descriptions of help by Finnish adolescents who self-mutilate. 30 Jan 2009
• How repeated 15-minute assertiveness training sessions reduce wrist cutting in patients with borderline personality disorder. 30 Dec 2008
• Body integrity identity disorder (BIID)--is the amputation of healthy limbs ethically justified? 30 Dec 2008
• A man with congenital abnormalities and psychotic symptoms. 8 Dec 2008
• Self-mutilation and suicidal behaviour in children and adolescents: prevalence and psychosocial correlates: results of the BELLA study. 29 Nov 2008
• Deep brain stimulation in the nucleus accumbens for intractable Tourette's syndrome: follow-up report of 36 months. 10 Nov 2008
• Concept analysis of self-mutilation. 30 Oct 2008
• Nicotine dependence is associated with suicide attempts and self-mutilation among adolescent females. 14 Oct 2008
• The prevalence of self-harm behaviors among a sample of gastric surgery candidates. 29 Sep 2008
• Dissociation, self-cutting, and other self-harm behavior in a general population of Finnish adolescents. 29 Sep 2008
• [Culture and psychological concepts of self-harm] 30 Aug 2008
• Penile self-mutilation - two cases in one family. 30 Aug 2008
• A novel 6.14 Mb duplication of chromosome 8p21 in a patient with autism and self mutilation. 10 Aug 2008
• The prevalence of self-cutting and other self-harm among 13- to 18-year-old Finnish adolescents. 3 Jul 2008
• [Self-mutilation of the hand in a girl with total, persistent obstetric brachial plexus palsy--case report] 29 Jun 2008
• The lethic phallus: rethinking the misery of Oedipus. 29 Jun 2008
• Delusions of parasitosis of the eyelids. 29 Jun 2008

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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