Characteristics and predictors of self-mutilation: A study of incarcerated women

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 312-321

  Roe Sepowitz, Dominique ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHILD ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; COMORBIDITY; CRIME VICTIMS; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PRISONERS; PRISONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF MUTILATION; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37249026229     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.665     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Borrill J, Burnett R, Atkins R, Miller S, Briggs D, Weaver T, Maden A (2003) Patterns of self-mutilation and attempted suicide among white and black/mixed race female prisoners. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 13: 229-240.
2. Briere J, Gil E (1998) Self-mutilation in clinical and general population samples: prevalence correlates and functions. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 68: 609-620.
3. Briere J (1992) Child Maltreatment Interview Schedule. In Briere J Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment of the Lasting Effects. Newbury Park CA: Sage Publications.
4. Briere J (1995) Trauma Symptom Inventory: Professional Manual. Lutz, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
5. Brown MZ, Comtois KA, Linehan MM (2002) Reasons for suicide attempts and nonsuicidal self-injury in women with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 111: 198-202.
6. DiClemente RJ, Ponton LE, Hartley D (1991) Prevalence and correlates of cutting behavior: risk for HIV transmission. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 30: 735-739.
7. Dulit RA, Fyer MR, Leon AC, Brodsky BS, Frances AJ (1994) Clinical correlates of self-mutilation in borderline personality disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry 151: 1305-1311.
8. Emerson LE (1913) The case of Miss A: A preliminary report of a psychoanalysis study and treatment of a case of self-mutilation. Psychoanalytic Review 1: 41-54.
9. Favazza AR (1987) Normal and deviant self-mutilation: an essay review. Transcultural Psychiatric Research 26: 113-127.
10. Favazza AR (1998) Introduction. In Strong M (ed.) A Bright Red Scream. New York: Penguin, pp. viiii-xiv.
11. Favazza AR, Conterio K (1989) Female habitual self-mutilators. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 79: 283-289.
12. Gratz KL (2003) Risk factors for functions of deliberate self-mutilation: An empirical and conceptual review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice 10: 192-205.
13. Gratz KL, Conrad SD, Roemer L (2002) Risk factors for deliberate self-mutilation among college students. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 72: 128-140.
14. Gray NS, McGleish A, MacCulloch MJ, Hill C, Timmons D, Snowden RJ (2003) Indicators of violence and self-mutilation in mentally disordered offenders: a prospective study of the efficacy of HCR-20, PCL-R and psychiatric symptomology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 71: 443-451.
15. Herpertz S (1995) Self-injurious behaviour: psychopathological and nosological characteristics in subtypes of self-injurers. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 91: 57-68.
16. Himber J (1994) Blood rituals: self-cutting in female psychiatric inpatients. Psychotherapy 31: 620-631.
17. Holley H, Arboleda-Florez J (1988) Hypernomia and self-destructiveness in penal settings. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 11: 167-178.
18. Inch H, Rowlands P, Soliman A (1995) Deliberate self-mutilation in a young offenders' institution. Journal of Forensic Psychology 6: 161-171.
19. Jones I, Congiu L, Stevenson J, Strauss N, Frei DZ (1979) A biological approach to two forms of human self-injury. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 167: 74-78.
20. Lester D (1972) Self-mutilating behavior. Psychological Bulletin 78: 119-128.
21. Menninger K (1935) A psychoanalytic study of the significance of self-mutilation. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 4: 408-466.
22. Menninger K (1938) Man Against Himself. New York: Jovanovich.
23. Morgan HG, Pocock H, Pottle S (1975) The urban distribution of non-fatal deliberate self mutilation. British Journal of Psychiatry 126: 319-328.
24. Napoli M (2004) Tools for Balanced Living: A mindfulness Practice Workbook. Tempe, AZ: Scholargy Press.
25. Paul T, Schroeter K, Dahme B, Nutzinger DO (2002) Self-injurious behavior in women with eating disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry 159: 408-411.
26. Rodriguez-Srednicki O (2001) Childhood sexual abuse dissociation and adult self-destructive behavior. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 10: 75-90.
27. Roe-Sepowitz DE, Bedard LE, Pate KN (2007) The impact of child abuse on dissociative symptoms: a study of incarcerated women. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation 8.
28. Schwartz RH, Cohen P, Hoffman NG, Meeks JE (1989) Self-mutilation behaviors (carving) in female adolescent drug abusers. Clinical Pediatrics 28: 340-346.
29. Strong M (1998) A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain. New York: Penguin.
30. Van der Kolk BA (1996) The complexity of adaptation to trauma: Self-Regulation Stimulus discrimination and characterological development. In Van der Kolk BA, Mcfarlane AC, Weisaeth L (eds) Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body and Society. New York: Guilford Press.
31. Walsh BW, Rosen PM (1988) Self Mutilation: Theory, Research and Treatment. New York: Guilford Press.