Self-control, Selfishness and Mutilation: How ‘Medical’ is Self-Injury Anyway?

Self-control, Selfishness and Mutilation: How ‘Medical’ is Self-Injury Anyway?

Self-inflicted injury, or ‘self-harm’, has been a topic of much debate in recent years. The media in the Western world has tended to portray the issue as an increasing ‘trend’, relating it to various contemporary concerns, including the so-called ‘celebrity culture’ and urban decline. The past decade in the UK has seen the publication of various clinical guidelines, a National Inquiry into Self...

Whose self is it, anyway?

Selfishness and Self-love

First published in: Psychiatry. Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Process, Washington (The William Alanson Psychiatric Foundation), Vol. 2 (1939), pp. 507-523. Reprint in the Yearbook of the International Erich Fromm Society, Vol. 5 (1994): Dealing with the Alien, Münster: LIT-Verlag, 1995, pp. 173-197. Copyright © 1994 and 2001 by The Literary Estate of Erich Fromm, c/o Dr. Rainer Funk, U...

[Self-mutilation in men--injury pattern and motivation].

6 cases of self-inflicted injuries in male individuals are reported. The age of the affected men was between 15 and 46 years whereas the younger age predominated. Alleged incidents were robberies in 3 cases, rape in one case, violation in custody in one case and an assault originating in personal motives in one case. In 4 cases, the typical injury pattern of self-infliction was present showing ...

Self-mutilation and behavioural disorder.

2In order to normalise the ESR and stabilise the arterial lesions, these patients were given daily doses of steroids higher than the standard for GCA (¢ 1 mg/kg). Most of them showed significant improvements in claudication and pulses (60%). Although the pulses were not recovered in cases with total vascular thrombosis, amputation of the involved limb was avoided.4 The mean response time was 2-...