TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - How new is self-harm? JO - Journal of nervous and mental disease A1 - Gilman, Sander L. SP - 1008 EP - 1016 VL - 200 IS - 12 N2 - ABSTRACT: "Self-harm" is now proposed as a full-fledged diagnostic category for DSM-5. The existing literature of the topic posits that it is a transhistorical psychiatric category and that examples of self-harm can be found from the earliest written records, which is part of the underlying argument for its inclusion in DSM-5. However, how old is self-harm and, indeed, what defines self-harm historically and culturally?

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