During the 30-year period 1961-1990, a total of 22 deaths with criminal multilation/dismemberment of the human body were registered in Sweden. The multilations occurred in time clusters, mostly during the summer and winter periods, and increased during the three decades, with incidence rates of 0.05, 0.1, and 0.125 per million inhabitants and year, respectively. Multilation was noted 6.6 times ...

studies have shown that there are psychiatric patients who tend to aggressively mutilate themselves; they burn or in most cases attempt to burn themselves, attempt to severely damage their genital organs (especially amputate their penis), castrate themselves, axtract their own eyes, amputate their own hands, or commit suicide. this report introduces two psychiatric men, aged 40 and 47, who had ...

The characteristic self-mutilation behaviors of patients with Lescl~Nyhan syndrome are detailed. The behavorial manifestations and dental management of five cases are discussed with emphasis on the lack of viable treatment choices other than extraction. Some suggestions for categorizing the mutilative behaviors have been presented together with possible treatment choices of each group. Lesch-Ny...

OBJECTIVES To investigate differences in the relationship between self-esteem and the initiation of substance use (tobacco, alcohol and marijuana) among male and female secondary school students in British Columbia. METHODS The data were collected in the 2010 fall and 2011 spring cycles of the British Columbia Adolescent Substance Use Survey (BASUS). The sample consisted of 1,267 adolescents ...

Tooth mutilation existed in sub-Saharan Africa, and was found among slaves transported to the New World. A small number of mutilation cases have been identified in early New World "Negro" skeletons from the Caribbean and Florida. The skeletal evidence alone precludes determining if the individuals were Africanor American-born, but limited ethnohistorical data suggested the former. This hypothes...