%0 Journal Article %T Predictors of self-mutilation in patients with schizophrenia %J American journal of psychiatry %D 1981 %A Sweeny, S. %A Zamecnik, K. %V 138 %N 8 %P 1086-1089 %X 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.

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%G en %I American Psychiatric Association %@ 0002-953X %U http://dx.doi.org/