| Autor: |
McKerracher, D. W., Loughnane, T., Watson, R. A. |
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British Journal of Psychiatry; Jul68, Vol. 114 Issue 512, p829-832, 4p, 2 Charts |
| Abstrakt: |
The article presents a study on self-mutilation of female psychopaths in a psychiatric hospital. According to the author, gross lacerations are often inflicted without the patient appearing to experience any suffering, which may involve some kind of hysterical anesthesia. A separate investigation was made on a group of patients who had not demonstrated the behavior in the previous year and on the patients that consistently indulge in self-mutilation during the same period. The results showed that the main goals of self-mutilation include attention-seeking, prestige gaining, and tension reduction. It also pointed that self-mutilation had a contagious quality, with widespread imitation and identification. |
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