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Type:	Book chapter
Title:	Self-inflicted injuries and associated psychological profiles
Author:	Gall, J. Goldney, R. Payne-James, J.
Citation:	Current Practice in Forensic Medicine, 2011 / Gall, J., Payne-James, J. (ed./s), pp.273-290
Publisher:	Wiley
Publisher Place:	United Kingdom
Issue Date:	2011
ISBN:	9780470744871
Editor:	Gall, J. Payne-James, J.
Statement of Responsibility:	John Gall, R. Goldney, Jason Payne-James
Keywords:	self-inflicted injuries - and associated psychological profiles group of self-harmers, in forensic settings - more investigative time and money in assessing allegations clinical forensic perspective, dealing with live persons - groups of self-harmers encountered spectrum of self-inflicted injury - from non-suicidal, deliberate self-harm to completed suicide forensic approach to potential self-infliction - known psychiatric basis for behaviour, and mental health conditions, where such behaviour occurs injuries, atypical for self-infliction - issues of mental health status of complainant psychiatric aspects of self-harm - suicidal intent, minimal or absent, terminology used varying enormously lesser degrees of physical injury - and personality disorders ritual mutilation of sexual organs, both male and female - practised in different cultures epidemiology of self-harm, a challenge - self-harm, rare before puberty, appearing to peak during adolescence
Rights:	Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
DOI:	10.1002/9780470973158.ch10
Published version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470973158.ch10
Appears in Collections:	Aurora harvest Psychiatry publications

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