TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1984//
TI  - Proposal for a distinctive diagnosis: the deliberate self-harm syndrome (DSH)
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Pattison, E. M.
A1  - Kahan, J.
SP  - 17
EP  - 35
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
N2  - Self-destructive behavior is a major clinical problem in psychiatry. A review of the literature reveals the existence of enough clinical data to identify a diagnostic entity, "The Deliberate Self-Harm Syndrome" (DSH). The authors present a diagnostic formulation of the DSH syndrome (in the DSM-III format) which consists of four essential clinical features, a group of associated features, clinical features, a group of associated features, a clinical course of typical onset in late adolescence, with multiple recurrent episodes, with multiple methods of low lethality physical self-injury, extending over many years. On the basis of relatively exclusive association of clinical signs and symptoms a heuristic clinical entity is proposed.
LA  - 
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -