Modes and patterns of self-mutilation in persons with Lesch–Nyhan disease

The aim of this study, which was carried out in the French-speacking part of Switzerland, was to examine the relationship between suicide attempts and self-mutilation by adolescents and young adults. The population, aged 14-25 years (N = 308), included a clinical sample of dependent subjects (drug abuse and eating disorders) compared to a control sample. On the basis of the Mini Neuropsychiatric Interview ( Sheehan et al., 1998 ), DSM-IV criteria were used for the inclusion of the clinical population. The results concerning the occurrence of suicide attempts as well as on self-mutilation confirm most of the hypotheses postulated: suicidal attempts and self-mutilation were more common in the clinical group compared to the control group, and there was a correlation between suicide attempts and self-mutilation. However, there was only a partial overlap, attesting that suicide and self-harm might correspond to two different types of behaviour.

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Self-Mutilation

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/027806 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 283-284

Author(s):

Joseph Westermeyer

Keyword(s):

Self Mutilation

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The art of self-mutilation. II. Delusions of parasitosis

JAMA ◽

10.1001/jama.198.11.1207 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 198 (11) ◽

pp. 1207-1207

Author(s):

K. M. Halprin

Keyword(s):

Self Mutilation

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P-860 - Biopsychosocial approach to a case of self mutilation

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(12)75027-7 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

R. Gournellis ◽

I. Michopoulos ◽

M. Papadopoulou ◽

D. Plachouras ◽

K. Tournikioti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Biopsychosocial Approach ◽

Self Mutilation

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Connecting the “Inside” and the “Outside” World: Convict Labour and Mobile Penal Camps in Colonial Senegal (1930s–1950s)

International Review of Social History ◽

10.1017/s0020859019000373 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 64 (3) ◽

pp. 473-491

Author(s):

Romain Tiquet

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Self Mutilation

AbstractIn the late 1930s, three mobile penal camps were established in the French colony of Senegal in order to assemble convicts with long sentences and compel them to work outside the prison. Senegalese penal camps were thus a place both of confinement and of circulation for convicts who constantly moved out of the prison to work on the roads. This article argues that the penal camps were spaces of multiple and antagonistic forms of mobility that blurred the divide between the “inside” and the “outside” world. The mobility of penal camps played a key role in the hazardous living and working conditions that penal labourers experienced. However, convict labourers were not unresponsive and a range of protests emerged, from breakout to self-mutilation. These individual and intentional forms of mobility and immobility threw a spanner in the works of the day-to-day functioning of Senegalese penal camps and, more broadly, in the colonial project of mise en valeur.

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