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Self Mutilation

Known as: self-inflicted wound, inflicted injury self, injuries self inflicted 
The act of injuring one's own body to the extent of cutting off or permanently destroying a limb or other essential part of a body.
National Institutes of Health

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Behavior DisordersInjury woundsSelf-Injurious Behavior

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Male genital self-mutilation
Psychiatric case reports of male genital self-mutilation (GSM) in the literature are rare and mostly anecdotal. Most of them are… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Self-mutilation and suicidal behaviour in children and adolescents: prevalence and psychosocial correlates: results of the BELLA study
ObjectiveTo investigate the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of suicidal behaviour in a representative sample of children… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Habitual self‐mutilation in Japan
Abstract  The purpose of the present study was to clarify the relationship between bulimic behavior, dissociative phenomenon and… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Self-mutilating behaviour of psychiatric inpatients
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Clinical Predictors of Self-Mutilation in Hospitalized Forensic Patients
This study evaluated the clinical correlates and inpatient course of self-mutilation in a diagnostically diverse sample of… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Evidence for endogenous inhibition of autotomy by galanin in the rat after sciatic nerve section: demonstrated by chronic intrathecal infusion of a high affinity galanin receptor antagonist
Review
1993
Review
1993
Body and self in feminine development: implications for eating disorders and delicate self-mutilation.
Eating disorders and the syndrome of delicate self-mutilation are primarily afflictions of women. The author examines this… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Psychiatric aspects of male genital self-mutilation.
From the beginning of the century to this day 57 cases of male genital self-mutilation have been reported in the English… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Depression and hostility in self-mutilation.
The presence of depression and hostility among self-mutilating patients is investigated. Mutilators, depressives and controls… 
Highly Cited
1966
Highly Cited
1966
A Study of Arsonists in a Special Security Hospital
During the course of a recent analysis of one year's male admissions to Rampton Hospital, and of male referrals to the psychology… 
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