Citation

Briere J, Gil E. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1998; 68(4): 609-620.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9809120

Abstract

Self-mutilation, examined in samples of the general population, clinical groups, and self-identified self-mutilators, was reported by 4% of the general and 21% of the clinical sample, and was equally prevalent among males and females. Results suggest that such behavior is used to decrease dissociation, emotional distress, and posttraumatic symptoms. Childhood sexual abuse was associated with self-mutilation in both clinical and nonclinical samples.

Language: en