Citation

Muehlenkamp JJ. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 2005; 75(2): 324-333.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL, USA. jjmuehlenkamp@yahoo.com.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

10.1037/0002-9432.75.2.324

PMID

15839768

Abstract

The field of clinical psychology may benefit from adopting a deliberate self-injury syndrome as a distinct disorder for representation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The phenomenological and empirical data supporting a deliberate self-injury syndrome are reviewed, and arguments for and against the adoption of a distinct syndrome are explored.