The issue of self harm is a popular inclusion in various contemporary journals focusing on
health and in particular women's health. This paper seeks to condense, critically analyse …

Background. Deliberate self‐harm is frequently encountered by emergency department (ED)
nurses. However, clients are often dissatisfied with the care provided and clinicians feel …

This article analyses the developing industry of body modification, in which cutting, tattooing
and piercing are carried out in studios for profit. It seeks to offer a feminist understanding of …

Through a historical review of girls' and women's episodic and repetitive self-injury-
scholarship focusing primarily on white, middle-class women in North America and Britain-in …

This paper presents a review of the literature into dissociative identity disorder. This
disorder, previously known as multiple personality disorder, is increasingly diagnozed, in …

The purpose of this article is to provide an example of a study in which reflexivity served as a
secondary but integral data source and became the experiential context from which …

Self-harm is a prevalent phenomenon regularly faced by doctors and nurses working in
accident and emergency (A&E) departments. We argue that the treatment decisions A&E …

The psychiatric diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) attracts considerable
stigma. People given this diagnosis may be characterised as manipulative, difficult, attention …

Objective: The aim of the present study was to assess the attitudes of mental health and
emergency medicine clinicians towards patients diagnosed with borderline personality …

Objective: The aim of the present study was to assess the impact of attending targeted
clinical education on borderline personality disorder on the attitudes of health clinicians …