Repetitive skin-picking in a student population and comparison with a sample of self-injurious skin-pickers

Psychosomatics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 210-215

  Keuthen, Nancy J ^a   Deckersbach, Thilo ^a   Wilhelm, Sabine ^a   Hale, Edward ^a   Fraim, Catherine ^a   Baer, Lee ^a   O'Sullivan, Richard L ^a   Jenike, Michael A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SELF REPORT; SKIN DISEASE;

EID: 0034031721     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.41.3.210     Document Type: Article

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