Case report: Repetitive autocastration secondary to severe personality disorder [2]

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 453-454

  Sockalingam, Sanjeev ^a   Stergiopoulos, Vicky ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; COCAINE; PAROXETINE; RISPERIDONE;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANHEDONIA; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; APPETITE; AUTOMUTILATION; BORDERLINE STATE; CARBON MONOXIDE INTOXICATION; CASE REPORT; CASTRATION; CHILD ABUSE; COUNTER TRANSFERENCE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVORCE; DRIVE; DRUG OVERDOSE; HUMAN; LETTER; LONELINESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PENIS; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORCHIECTOMY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; RECURRENCE; RISPERIDONE; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 27644553115     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2005.05.010     Document Type: Letter

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