Deliberate Self-Harm: Clinical and Socio-Economic Characteristics of 368 Patients

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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry

سال: 1975

ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465

DOI: 10.1192/bjp.127.6.564