A 7-year-old boy with Tourette's disorder, atypical pervasive developmental disorder, borderline mental retardation, and a history of self-injurious behavior was treated for 21 months with clonidine transdermal patches at doses ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 mg weekly. When withdrawn from clonidine over 4 weeks to assess the need for continued therapy, the patient developed multiple self-destructive b...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a common, disabling, and burdensome psychiatric condition. It is characterized by turbulent fluctuations of negative emotions and moods, unstable and conflictual interpersonal relationships, an incoherent and often contradictory sense of self, and impulsive, potentially lethal self-injurious behaviors. The neurobehavioral facets of BPD have not been exte...

The present research examined the relationships between engagement in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), benign masochism, and antisocial personality traits. Because both masochists individuals who engage find pleasure experiencing pain, we expected a positive relationship masochism NSSI. We further anticipated NSSI to be positively related traits due shared propensity for aggression violence. In ...

Abstract Youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, and questioning (LGBQ PLUS_SPI ) youth a gender distinct from their birth-assigned sex (i.e., transgender diverse), collectively LGBTQIA , show nearly triple the risk for self-injurious thoughts behaviors (SITBs). Research to date highlights that minority stressors across structural, interpersonal, intrapersonal levels may help explain this ...

BACKGROUND During the last decade there is a growing scientific interest in nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). The aim of the current paper was to review systematically the literature with a special focus on the associations between self-injurious behaviours and externalizing psychopathology. An additional aim was to review terminology and measurements of self-injurious behaviour and the connectio...

BACKGROUND The standardisation of the assessment methodology and case definition represents a major precondition for the comparison of study results and the conduction of meta-analyses. International guidelines provide recommendations for the standardisation of falls methodology; however, injurious falls have not been targeted. The aim of the present article was to review systematically the ran...

The current study examines the application of capacity, psychological distress, coping and personality to an understanding of self-injurious behaviour, with a specific focus on testing the Interpersonal-Psychological Theory of Suicidal Behaviour (IPTSB). One hundred and ninety women prisoners took part, completing a history questionnaire and measures of personality, coping styles and psychologi...