Patterns of contagion in self-mutilation epidemics



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Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:656-658
Copyright © 1989 by American Psychiatric Association

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Patterns of contagion in self-mutilation epidemics

PM Rosen and BW Walsh
Community Treatment Complex, Worcester, MA 01608.

Contagion of self-mutilation was studied in a treatment program for disturbed adolescents. Statistical analyses and a sociogram revealed that 1) episodes of contagion were significantly associated with specific pairs of subjects, and 2) a few subjects were identified as being at the center of most of the contagion activity.

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