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The Politics of Location and Sexuality in Leila Ahmed’s and Nawal El Saadawi’s Life Narratives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article explores Leila Ahmed’s A Border Passage, and Nawal El Saadawi’s Memoirs from the Women’s Prison, A Daughter of Isis, and Walking Through Fire. It contrasts their works and argues that location and genderawareness play an important role in
Aouadi, Leila
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Anaesthetic Bodies and the Absence of Feeling: Pain and Self-Mutilation in Later Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry

open access: yes19, 2012
This paper addresses the overlapping ways in which self-inflicted injury was understood in relation to an absence of pain during the long nineteenth century, arguing that a clear distinction between bodily and mental suffering cannot be made in this ...
Sarah Chaney
doaj   +2 more sources

Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) : learning from (policy) experiences across countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is internationally considered a harmful practice, it is increasingly being medicalized allegedly to reduce its negative health effects, and is thus suggested as a harm reduction strategy in ...
Barrett, Hazel   +4 more
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Self-inflicted injury: An attempt of autoglossectomy !!!

open access: yesJournal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2011
Teeth are considered as strongest, functional and unique organs of the body. In some situations, they act as injurious agents especially among the individuals with psychotic state.
S V Ravindra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

MEDICAL, LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS TO DIAGNOSE SELFMUTILATION, IMITATING DELIBERATE ACUTE SURGICAL PATHOLOGY. CLINICAL CASE

open access: yesКреативная хирургия и онкология, 2017
Introduction. To date, in penal institutions of the Russian Federation annually there are not less than 10000 accurately registered facts of self-mutilation, causing immediate or delayed medical care in terms of surgical hospital.
Andrey V. Vasilchenko, Albert M. Gareev
doaj   +1 more source

Effective Interventions for Treating Superficial Self Mutilators [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Self-cutting is the most common form of self-mutilation in adolescents but there is insufficient knowledge as to which treatment methods to reduce self-mutilation are most effective.
Palladini, Maria
core   +1 more source

Neuroanatomical and functional correlates in borderline personality disorder: A narrative review

open access: yesIbrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 19-31, Spring 2025.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is considered a dysfunctional, stable, and pervasive alteration in personality functioning with the inability to adapt to the environment, mental rigidity, and ego‐syntonic, and like all personality disorders is a consistent pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of ...
Giulio Perrotta
wiley   +1 more source

The role of adverse childhood experiences in risky behaviors, health care utilization, and generalized self-efficacy in the general adult Polish population

open access: yesArchives of Medical Science, 2020
Introduction The present study evaluated whether adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are significantly and independently associated with six key outcomes in the Polish general population: (1) lifetime suicide attempt, (2) self-mutilation, (3) potential ...
Dominika Berent, Marcin Wojnar
doaj   +1 more source

Self mutilation by institutionalized delinquent adolescent girls [PDF]

open access: yes, 1963
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston ...
Chapman, Carolyn Cary
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The Spectrum of Abnormal Tongue Movements: Review of Phenomenology, Etiology, and Differential Diagnosis

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Classifying abnormal tongue movements is challenging due to their varied presentations and limited visibility compared to other body parts. Accurate identification of the phenomenology guides physical examination and can point to specific diagnoses.
Nathaniel Bendahan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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