Citation

Connors R. Am. J. Orthopsychiatry 1996; 66(2): 197-206.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, American Orthopsychiatric Association, Publisher Wiley Blackwell)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9173798

Abstract

Self-injury is increasingly linked to traumatic childhood experiences, and is identified in this paper as a means by which some trauma survivors cope with post-traumatic effects. It is proposed that self-injury serves a number of functions, organized here into four categories: re-enactment of the original trauma, expression of feelings and needs, reorganization of the self, and management of dissociative process.

Language: en