The predictive effects of peer victimization and harsh parenting on deliberate self-harm were examined. As derived from the experiential avoidance model, the study also tested whether these links were moderated by individual self-regulation approaches. Data were collected at two points in time from 880 junior high school students (mean age=13.72) in Sweden. Analyses using structural equation mo...

Introduction: Self-mutilation is of an auto-aggressive nature. They take many forms. Usually they do not occur as isolated phenomenon. Self-injuring persons often have a diagnosed mental disorder, and psychiatric diagnosis one the risk factors for occurrence self-harm. Material method: In this study, articles were analyzed that contained information on various disorders. These searched self-mut...

Self-harm is a common problem among young people with many presenting to clinical services via general hospitals, but many more do not come to the attention of clinical services at all. Self-harm is strongly associated with completed suicide so it is extremely important that patients are assessed and treated for this problem effectively. Despite the scale of the problem in young people, there i...

Self-enucleation is a very unusual form of self-mutilation directly linked to mental illness. In this case we present a 26-year-old schizophrenic patient who attempted to enucleate his eye with a rollerball pen. Antipsychotic therapy and emergency surgery saved the patient eye and emphasize the importance of quick response and good collaboration between psychiatric and ophthalmic teams.

Sir: The term neuroacanthocytosis describes a group of phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous disorders associated with choreatic movements, psychiatric abnormalities, and cognitive decline. 1,2 Patients with neuroacanthocytosis may develop dementia, 3 schizophrenia, 4,5 obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), 5,6 tourettism, 7 and self-mutilation. 8 We present the case of a patient with neu...

Many forms of self-inflicted injury are seen in psychiatric patients. Some common forms reported in the literature include self-enucleation,1 genital self-mutilation,2 and amputation of a limb.3 Different aetiologies may contribute to the different types of self-inflicted injury, one such being acting-out of psychotic symptoms. This is an important area to explore as acting-out of psychotic sym...