TY  - BOOK
AU  - de Oliveira de Paula Cidade,Natália
AU  -  Abu-Jamra Zornig,Silvia Maria
TI  - Self-mutilation: A paradoxical symptom
PY  - 2021///.
							
N1  - 24
N2  - Self-mutilations are acts that seek to attack one's own skin, and they usually generate very ambivalent feelings in the people around the patient, including the care team. Based on a clinical listening, the aim of this work is to highlight the paradoxical dimension present in the symptom of self-mutilation: while presenting an extremely destructive dimension, evoking reactions of horror and incomprehension, self-mutilations can also be understood as acts in the service of life. In this article, we intend to propose a reflection on self-mutilations as a type of radical survival mechanism, which operates as an attempt of singularization, of appropriation of oneself
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-cliniques-2021-2-page-132?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -