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Self-Mutilating Behavior

American Journal of Nursing, 1997
TOPIC. The phenomenon of self‐mutilating behnvior. PURPOSE. Self‐mutilating behavior (SMB) creates serious management problems in psychiatric settings and typically begins in adolescence. In order to plan and provide effective nursing interventions, it is necessary nurses be knowledgeable about the phenomenon.
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The functions of self-mutilation

Clinical Psychology Review, 1998
While pathological self-mutilating behavior has been clinically examined for over 65 years, and much of the literature hypothesizes some function for the behavior, there has been little attempt to integrate or differentiate between different functional ideas.
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Self-Mutilation in Female Psychopaths

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1968
Rampton is a Special Hospital catering mainly for subnormal and psychopathic patients with histories of dangerous and violent behaviour. Earlier work (McKerracher, Street, Segal, 1966) had shown that female patients were significantly more prone than males to mutilate their own bodies and smash hospital property.
D W, McKerracher, T, Loughnane, R A, Watson   +2 more
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Self-Mutilation and the Borderline Personality

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1982
As part of a larger study of pathological self-injury, 14 self-mutilators and 14 psychiatric controls matched for age, sex, and inpatient/outpatient status were administered the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines. Consistent with Gunderson's theory of borderline personality disorder, the self-mutilators scored significantly higher on impulse-action ...
C B, Schaffer, J, Carroll, S I, Abramowitz   +2 more
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Transsexual Genital Self-Mutilation

American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology, 2005
Most genital self-mutilations in nonpsychotic patients are found in transsexuals, and premeditation of sex-conversion surgery is the main objective. In this paper, we will describe the case of a male-to-female transsexual who took out his testes as a way to facilitate the surgery and to circumvent the Brazilian laws.
Danilo Antonio, Baltieri, Arthur Guerra, de Andrade   +1 more
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Self-Mutilation and Tourette's Disorder

Journal of Child Neurology, 1987
Tourette's disorder is a stereotyped movement disorder that carries with it the risk of self-mutilation. Two cases are presented in which children with Tourette's disorder mutilated themselves. Possible physiologic mechanisms by which self-mutilation occurs in patients with Tourette's disorder are reviewed and treatment strategies are discussed.
G L, Eisenhauer, R C, Woody
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Self-Mutilation

Southern Medical Journal, 1992
M D, Feldman, J M, Feldman
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Self-mutilation

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1983
J, Vela, J, Harris, J K, Wright, R A, Hardin, R B, Terry, R, Aquino   +5 more
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Self-Mutilation

Psychiatric Services, 1993
N N, Singh, C R, Ellis, R W, Ricketts, A B, Goza   +3 more
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Habitual Violence and Self-Mutilation

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1974
Thirty-seven percent of a group of 22 habitually violent patient/inmates were observed on admission to a special prison facility to have scars resulting from self-inflicted wounds. The author found that these men revealed considerable psychopathology beginning at an early age.
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