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UNSPECIFIED (1992) PERSONALITY-DISORDER AND SELF-WOUNDING. BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, 161 . pp. 451-464.
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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 | ||||
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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 | ||||
Official Date: | October 1992 | ||||
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Volume: | 161 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 451-464 | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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