Self-injurious behavior as a separate clinical syndrome.
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The field of clinical psychology may benefit from adopting a deliberate self-injury syndrome as a distinct disorder for representation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The phenomenological and empirical data supporting a deliberate self-injury syndrome are reviewed, and arguments for and against the adoption of a distinct syndrome are explored.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The American journal of orthopsychiatry
دوره 75 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005