Long-term data about recovery from suicidal and self-destructive phenomena are limited. We examined these phenomena in a naturalistic, follow-along study of 226 adults with treatment-refractory disorders admitted at the Austen Riggs Center. Follow-along interviews systematically rated suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, self-mutilation, and other self-destructive phenomena. We identified vital...

A case of nipple and genital self-mutilation (GSM) is described in a female patient of first episode of schizophrenia and compared with the only three cases reported so far in the literature. The act of nipple and GSM in the case reported here was in response to a psychotic phenomenon to “protect” her family from some outside harm, in the absence of any sexual connotation, religious delusion, p...

Self-inflicted lesions that cause mutilation are observed in schizophrenic patients. This case report describes the diagnosis and treatment of simple schizophrenia in a 31-year-old male patient who bit his own tongue and lower lip. The dental treatment proposed included the construction of a splint to prevent new lesions and to allow healing of existing ones. The treatment afforded to avoid too...

Self-castration and penile amputation are rare life-threatening types of genital self-mutilation. The microsurgical technique replantation is the gold standard; however, there conflicting reports successful macrosurgical replantations. Being rare, this condition may even be mistaken as criminal mutilation. surgical management evolves over a few case series; therefore, it prudent to publish such...

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-...

History. Is a cultivator in comfortable circumstances Has been married tor the last twelve years, and has had two children, one of whom died in infancy and the other is a girl aged about ten and healthy : wife is alive. According to his relatives and the Police report, has never been suspected of being insane. About two months ago became the chela of a yogi who at his own request made him a lli...