A skin-picking disorder case report: a psychopathological explanation

We describe the case of a 44-year-old woman, without known previous psychiatric history, hospitalized after a significant hemorrhage caused by self-inflicted deep facial dermal lesions (with muscle exposition). Psychopathological possible explanations of this case, as in similar reviewed ones, are r...

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Main Authors: Ângela Ribeiro, João Pedro Ribeiro, Orlando von Doellinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2015-06-01
Series:Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0047-20852015000200177&lng=en&tlng=en