17 articles in this issue
Bo Møhl, Lotte Rubæk
Lars-Gunnas Lundh
It is commonly assumed that non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) functions as a way of regulating emotions. But if so, which kinds of emotions are regulated by NSSI? And why have these persons chosen this particular form of emotion regulation? The purpose of t... see more
Lilian Zølner
Suicide, attempted suicide and self-harming behaviour among adolescents has been debated since 2000. Unfortunately, no significant decline in suicide rates has been documented since 2007; neither has there been a notable fall in the attempted suicide rate... see more
Nanna Lindekilde, Mathias Lasgaard
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behavior can be viewed as two dimensions of self-harming behavior which differentiate in intention, frequency and mortality. In this review, we present different theoretical models which explain the link betwee... see more
Camilla Beck Vestergaard, Carsten René Jørgensen
Traditionally non-suicidal self-injury has been seen as shameful behavior and those suffering from it have concealed it from their surrounding environment. There is a tendency that is growing amongst adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury behavior, in ... see more
Anna Lanken Rasmussen, Svend Aage Ramussen
Based on the different professional backgrounds of the authors (anthropologist and psychologist), and taking postmodern ideas, exemplified by social constructionism and poststructuralismas a common epistemological starting point, self-injury is described ... see more
Helmer Bøving Larsen
In a nationwide school survey in 2008 conducted by use of multi-media computer assisted self-interviewing, prevalence rates of suicidal attempts and non-suicidal self-injury were assessed among 1,991 boys and 1,942 girls in 9th grade and correlated to com... see more
Bo Møhl, Katrine Schjødt Vammen, Mogens Christoffersen
The objective of the study is to find the incidence of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) among Danes born in 1984, as well as to test if social support during childhood is a mediator between child abuse and other traumatic events and non-suicidal self-injur... see more
Per Frederiksen, Kirsten Arntz Boisen
Approximately 10% of adolescents suffer from chronic somatic illness. Recent research shows that chronically ill adolescents are at increased risk of self-harm compared to their healthy peers. Regarding adolescents with co-occurring mental illness, the pr... see more
58 self-harming patients in psychiatric treatment have been investigated by a self-report questionnaire with focus on self-harm methods and frequency, circumstances of the selfharm episode, motivation for and effect of self-harm and suicidal attempts. The... see more
Line Sangild Thimmer, Janne Østergaard Hagelquist
Re-enactment is unbidden memories of one or more traumatic experiences that return in either physical sensation, reliving or behavioral reconstruction of the trauma (van der Kolk, 1989). It is a recurrent self-harming trauma reaction, where the traumatize... see more
Birgit Bonde, Bent Rosenbaum
The aim of the paper is to investigate how childhood experiences of bullying may later create self-destructive and self-harming behavior. The paper summarizes the empirical quantitative research, but has its main focus on structural qualitative interviews... see more
Lotte Rubæk, Bo Møhl
It is a common clinical experience that individuals with non-suicidal self-injury, especially cutters, intensify their self-harming behavior and develop an addiction-like condition as time goes by. Some researchers have explained this addiction-like condi... see more
Bernadette Buhl-Nielsen, Camilla Henanger
This article looks at the problem of deliberate self-harm in subjects with personality disorder from the perspective of Winnicott’s theories regarding the development of a true self, in combination with perspectives from social psychology and attachment t... see more
Rasmus Thastum, Sara Khodaie
This paper presents the results of a qualitative study exploring the accounts of 15 people with a history of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). The study focusses on the period before engaging in NSSI, life with NSSI and the remission of NSSI. The results s... see more
Joan Mogensen, Birgitte Brun
Münchausen syndrome by proxy is a form of child abuse, characterized by a mother harming her child, either by making it ill or by producing false symptoms or stories intending to initiate medical examinations and treatment. In this article, focus is on th... see more
Troels Gottlieb
This review interprets the history of personality theory from the outlook of psychology as a politicized subject field. The idiographic-nomothetic issue and the personality-situation debate are analyzed as dichotomizing fronts that to a larger degree than... see more