Self-cutting after rape.
The authors present three cases of women who began to cut themselves superficially after they had been raped. To the authors' knowledge, no such findings have been reported in the current literature on short- and long-term effects of rape.
Greenspan
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Department of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Samuel
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011902:Rape; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000209:etiology*; D012867:Skin / Q000293:injuries; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology*