Broadly speaking, self-injury (also called self-inflicted violence, self-harm, parasuicide, delicate cutting, self-abuse, and self-mutilation) is the act of attempting to alter a mood state by inflicting physical harm serious enough to cause tissue...

Self-harm (SH) is the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue. Self-harm spread dramatically as a behaviour among adolescents in the 1990s. Self-harm has gone by several names, including deliberate self-harm syndrome,...

Adolescents who cut themselves or engage in various other types of self-harming behavior often feel that their actions are very strange and unusual. Sometimes they are told that they are motivated by the desire to get attention. But in fact hurting...

Remote therapy Some self-harmers prefer not to seek help in the conventional way, or require further support and asistance beyond that which is offered by health services. Sarah Osborne provides an overview of the different types of self-harm and the help available on...

Prairie Women, Violence and Self-Harm BASED ON THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY BY DEBBIE BLUNDERFIELD FOR THE PRAIRIE WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE AND THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF MANITOBA Self-harm among women is a serious health concern in Canada. In recent years, the...

A Guantanamo Bay prisoner slashed his throat with a sharpened fingernail last month, spilling a lot of blood but surviving, a U.S. military commander said Tuesday.There have been four suicides since the U.S. opened the military prison at Guantanamo in January 2002 for men suspected...

A terror suspect who is subject to severe restrictions on his movements launched a furious outburst in court Wednesday in which he threatened to take his own life.Lawyers for Mahmoud Suliman Ahmed Abu Rideh argue that the restrictions imposed on their client contravene the European...