Patterns of contagion in self-mutilation epidemics
- 1 May 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 146 (5) , 656-658
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.5.656
Abstract
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 activty.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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