The article estimates the prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of intimate partner violence (IPV) by type and severity in population-based samples from three countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU). The article utilized nationally representative data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in Azerbaijan (2006), Moldova (2005), and Ukraine (2007). Respondents were select...

What constitutes non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a matter of some debate, but its growing presence in mainstream and popular media as well as the growing number of anecdotal reports by physicians, therapists, and junior and senior high school counselors suggest that it may be, as some have called it, ‘‘the next teen disorder’’ [1]. Referred to in the literature and media as ‘‘self-injurious ...

ISSN 1758-2008 10.2217/NPY.10.9 © 2011 Future Medicine Ltd Neuropsychiatry (2011) 1(1), 7–10 Nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior (NSSIB) is a severe form of psychopathology, which a psychiatrist or psychotherapist working with patients suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently encounters. We have been working with self-injurious patients for many years and have intensively...

BACKGROUND Research has implicated causal, mediating and meaningful roles for mental imagery in the experience of psychological distress, including self-injury. AIMS The present study aimed to further the understanding of this relationship through exploring the lived experiences of mental imagery from the perspective of those who self-injure. METHOD This study employed an inductive qualitat...

The D1 dopamine hypersensitivity model of self-injurious behavior leads to a testable clinical hypothesis: the mixed D1/D2 dopamine antagonist fluphenazine may improve the symptoms of self-injurious patients. The hypothesis was tested in an open pilot trial in six patients and a partially controlled trial in nine patients. Some degree of clinical improvement was observed in 11 of the 15 patient...