UNSPECIFIED (1992) PERSONALITY-DISORDER AND SELF-WOUNDING. [Journal Item]

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Abstract

At least 1 in 600 adults wound themselves sufficiently to need hospital treatment. More men than women do it, although more women receive psychological treatment. Many have a history of sexual or physical abuse. Self-wounding differs from other self-harm in being aimed neither at mutilation nor at death. Self-wounding coerces others and relieves personal distress. Repeated self-wounding is one criterion of borderline personality disorder but we prefer to consider it an 'addictive' behaviour rather than an expression of a wider disorder. Psychological management may need to be augmented by drug or social treatment. Carers, including professional carers, usually need help to contain the turbulence that self-wounding produces.

Item Type:	Journal Item
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Journal or Publication Title:	BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Publisher:	ROYAL COLLEGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS
ISSN:	0007-1250
Date:	October 1992
Volume:	161
Number of Pages:	14
Page Range:	pp. 451-464
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/21759

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