Severe Self-Mutilation Among Kenyan Psychotics
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 149 (6) , 778-780
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.149.6.778
Abstract
Four case reports are presented of psychotic patients seen in clinical practice in Nairobi over a period of one year, who inflicted serious bodily harm to themselves during that period. Possible psychopathological basis for this self-damage is briefly considered. A review of the literature reveals paucity of similar reports from Africa and the third world. Reasons for this paucity are hard to come by.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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