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Parasuicide

Known as: Parasuicides, SUICIDE GESTURE 
A form of self harm in which someone mimics the act of suicide without the intent to kill themselves.
National Institutes of Health

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Behavior DisordersMental disordersSelf-Injurious Behavior
suicide prevention

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2001
2001
Personality disorders in parasuicide
To examine the prevalence of personality disorders in a representative sample of patients admitted to inpatient care after a… 
1998
1998
Repetition of parasuicide —ICD‐10 personality disorders and adversity
Patients with a history of previous parasuicide were compared to those who had made their first attempt. A scale for suicidal… 
1995
1995
Psychological intervention, spontaneous remission, hopelessness, and psychiatric disturbance in adolescent parasuicides.
A study of 40 Indian adolescent parasuicides in South Africa showed that these subjects have significantly higher levels of… 
Review
1992
Review
1992
Long-term treatments of recurrent depressive disorders.
Many, if not most, depressive disorders become recurrent conditions. It is now clear that virtually all recently remitted… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Self-harm Behaviors (Carving)
Deliberate self-lacerations by rebellious or delinquent adolescent girls, known by them as "carving," may be erroneously… 
Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Assessing the Epidemiology of Suicide and Parasuicide
Suicide is a rare phenomenon – in most countries, it explains between 0.5 and 1% of all deaths – no more than 15 per 100 000… 
1986
1986
Suicide and Parasuicide in a Northern Canadian Native Community
  • C. RossB. Davis
  • Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne…
  • 1986
  • Corpus ID: 11143428
This report describes suicide and parasuicide in a small, remote northern Canadian native community for a three-year period from… 
1985
1985
NATIONAL TRENDS IN SELF-POISONING IN WOMEN
1984
1984
Oral activated charcoal to enhance theophylline elimination in an acute overdose.
HEMODIALYSIS 1 or charcoal hemoperfusion 2 is often thought to be required when patients overdose with a near-lethal quantity of… 
Review
1979
Review
1979
Empirically based comprehensive treatment program for parasuicide.
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