Self-Bloodletting: An Unusual Form of Self-Mutilation in Adolescence | Zendy

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Self-Bloodletting: An Unusual Form of Self-Mutilation in Adolescence

Author(s) -

Onur Burak Dursun,

Fatma Taş,

Taner Güvenir

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

eurasian journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.337

H-Index - 13

eISSN - 1308-8742

pISSN - 1308-8734

DOI - 10.5152/eajm.2010.27

Subject(s) - bloodletting , medicine , eating disorders , borderline personality disorder , psychiatry , alternative medicine , pathology

In this paper, we introduce an adolescent suffering from a rare form of self-mutilation, "self-bloodletting", and discuss dynamics of this maladaptive behavior. Deliberate bloodletting is a rare, but not unheard of, form of self-mutilation associated with eating and personality disorders. Although there are already several case reports in the adult psychiatry literature regarding the clinical features of Lasthenie de Ferjol Syndrome or factitious anemia, this is the first reported adolescent case of self-bloodletting.

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