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The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice
- A. Favazza
- Psychology
- 1 July 1998
The coming of age of self-mutilation.
- A. Favazza
- Psychology, Medicine
- The Journal of nervous and mental disease
- 1 May 1998
Self-mutilation (SM), the deliberate, nonsuicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, occurs in such culturally sanctioned practices as tattooing; body piercing; and healing, spiritual, and… Expand
The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition
- A. Favazza
- Psychology
- 1 December 1988
Bodies under siege : self-mutilation and body modification in culture and psychiatry
- A. Favazza
- Psychology
- 1996
This work analyzes the complex issues surrounding self-mutilation, drawing on case studies from clinical psychiatry and cultural anthropology to show that the phenomenon is deeply embedded… Expand
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Female habitual self‐mutilators
- A. Favazza, K. Conterio
- Psychology, Medicine
- Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
- 1 March 1989
ABSTRACT– Data are presented on 240 female habitual self‐mutilators. The typical subject is a 28‐year‐old Caucasian who first deliberately harmed herself at age 14. Skin cutting is her usual… Expand
Why patients mutilate themselves.
- A. Favazza
- Psychology, Medicine
- Hospital & community psychiatry
- 1 February 1989
Self-mutilation, the deliberate destruction or alteration of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent, occurs in a variety of psychiatric disorders. Major self-mutilation includes eye… Expand
Diagnostic issues in self-mutilation.
- A. Favazza, R. Rosenthal
- Medicine
- Hospital & community psychiatry
- 1 February 1993
OBJECTIVE
Pathological self-mutilation--the deliberate alteration or destruction of body tissue without conscious suicidal intent--was examined both as a symptom of mental disorders and as a distinct… Expand