Am J Psychiatry 1981; 138:1086-1089
Copyright © 1981 by American Psychiatric Association
Predictors of self-mutilation in patients with schizophrenia
S Sweeny and K Zamecnik
The authors found that a self-imposed change in physical appearance during
the acute phase before hospital admission and a previous act of
self-mutilation differentiated self-mutilators from control subjects in a
group of patients with schizophrenia. Anticipated object loss and living
with others were factors of clinical importance but did not reach
statistical significance.
