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Self-Mutilation, Obsessionality and Narcissism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Angela R. Gardner  and
Alan J. Gardner
Angela R. Gardner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Friern and Royal Free Hospitals, New Southgate, London, N.11
Alan J. Gardner
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, The London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, E.1
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This paper describes a controlled study of 22 non-psychotic female habitual self-cutters. In this study an habitual self-cutter is defined as a patient who has cut herself with a sharp object on at least two separate occasions.

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Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 127 , Issue 2 , August 1975 , pp. 127 - 132
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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