@article{ref1,
title="Medico-legal and psychiatric aspects in the differential diagnosis of self-wounding behaviour",
journal="Romanian journal of legal medicine",
year="1998",
author="Kernbach-Wighton, G. and Thomas, R.S. and Saternus, K.-s.",
volume="6",
number="1",
pages="30-39",
abstract="Personality disorders of the borderline type are characterized by autoaggressive behaviour. These patients use self-mutilation to protect or to restore their personal integrity. They make use of self-inflicted injuries especially in situations characterized by conflicts and personal crisis. The patients are mostly younger women, frequently showing a similar background. The severity of self-inflicted injuries varies from fine and superficial lesions to deep and severe trauma, which sometimes mutilate. Non-overt self- injuries may appear as factitious disease. Patients of another group showed at the same time characteristics combined with overt and non-overt self- injuries. In this group there often can be found a mixture of reality and phantasy/imaginations. In some cases there exists a real certainty of an unknown perpetrator. Morphologic examination should be followed by medical care for the psychiatric patient.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1221-8618",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}