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"Throughout history, people have invented many different ways to inflict direct and deliberate physical injury on themselves?without an intent to die. Even today, the concept and practice of self-injury is sanctioned by some cultures, although condemned by most. This insightful work fills a gap in the literature on pathologic self-injury. The phenomenon of people physically hurting themselves is heterogeneous in nature, disturbing in its impact on the self and others, frightening in its blatant maladaptiveness, and often indicative of serious developmental disturbances, breaks with reality, or deficits in the regulation of affects, aggressive impulses, or self states. Further complicating our understanding is the large and diverse scope of psychiatric conditions, such as pervasive developmental disorders, Tourette's syndrome, and psychosis, in which these behaviors occur."--(www.appi.org)
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
0880488085
Eric Hollander MD, Daphne Simeon MD
2001 American Psychiatric Publishing
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