Professional Journals and Research Papers
Journals
- The body can become addicted to self-injury - APA Monitor, December 95 edition.
- Contagion of deliberate self-harm among adolescent inpatients - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Printer-friendly version.
- Deliberate Self-Harm - Effective Health Care, December 1998, volume 4, number 6. Full text in PDF format.
- Genital Self-Mutilation - British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 156: Pages 125-127. January, 1990.
- Self-Injury - The Prevention Researcher 7(4). References available online.
Research Papers
- Child & Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) Study - European study of self injury run by the National Children’s Bureau. Companion website has the very comprehensive Young People & Self-Harm Information Resource.
- ‘Body Art’ and Social Status: Cutting, Tattooing and Piercing from a Feminist Perspective - Sheila Jeffreys, Feminism and Psychology, 2000, De Montfort University.
- “Den ordlösa smärtans spår i huden”: kunskaper om självskadebeteende inom psykiatrin - Paper (in Swedish) by a student at Lunds Universitet. Full text in PDF format.
- A Formulated Care Plan Approach to Caring for People with Borderline Personality Disorder in a Community Mental Health Service Setting
- Self Harm through the Window of the Internet - Research paper by Ragdoll.
- Self-Injury and Pain - College paper on self injury.
- Social context of deliberate self-harm - Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, University of Edinburgh.
- Writing Feminist Fiction for Young Girls - Melissa DeGezellee, from the WMNST 492W Student Conference, Spring 2002.