Repeated self-injury: Perspectives from general psychiatry

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 193-201

  Fagin, Leonard ^a  

^a South Forest Centre   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 35748948030     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.12.3.193     Document Type: Article

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