This Article
Right arrow Full Text
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit an eLetter
Right arrow View responses
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Fagin, L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Fagin, L.
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2006) 12: 193-201
© 2006 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Repeated self-injury: perspectives from general psychiatry

Leonard Fagin

Leonard Fagin is a full-time NHS consultant psychiatrist (South Forest Centre, Leytonstone, London E11 4HU, UK. Email: leonard. fagin{at}nelmht.nhs.uk) and an honorary senior lecturer at University College London. He works as an adult psychiatrist in an area of London of considerable ethnic diversity and deprivation. His interests include social and community psychiatry, psychological and familial effects of unemployment, in-patient psychotherapy, occupational stress (in particular, professional stress in mental health), personality disorders and improving therapeutic standards in acute mental health settings. He developed one of the first community mental health centres in the UK in 1983.

Patients who repeatedly injure themselves present particular management problems for general psychiatric teams. This article, the first of a series of four, examines the characteristics of those that present to adult mental health services, and the possible underlying background and trigger factors that lead to these anxiety-raising events. Suggestions are made on preventive and assessment procedures, staff reactions and management strategies aimed at helping patients deal with the overwhelming feelings that underlie self-injury.




This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Psychiatr. Bull.Home page
N. Pengelly, B. Ford, P. Blenkiron, and S. Reilly
Harm minimisation after repeated self-harm: development of a trust handbook
Psychiatr. Bull., February 1, 2008; 32(2): 60 - 63.
[Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JRSMHome page
A. Pitman
Policy on the prevention of suicidal behaviour; one treatment for all may be an unrealistic expectation
J R Soc Med, October 1, 2007; 100(10): 461 - 464.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Adv. Psychiatr. Treat.Home page
J. Nathan
Self-harm: a strategy for survival and nodal point of change
Adv. Psychiatr. Treat., September 1, 2006; 12(5): 329 - 337.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

eLetters:

Read all eLetters

Adopting a non-judgemental attitude
Dr Md Ali Jahan
Advances Online, 22 Jun 2006 [Full text]
On being non-judgemental
Ovais Wadoo, et al.
Advances Online, 17 Oct 2006 [Full text]