title: Girls who cut: treatment in an outpatient psychodynamic psychotherapy practice with adolescent girls and young adult women.
abstract: The observation of deficits in the capacity for mature emotional self-regulation in girls who cut is noted in the literature (Daldin, 1990; Novick & Novick, 1991; Nock et al., 2008). The acquisition of the ability to respond in a healthy manner to stress and challenge, either from outside or inside the self is one of the most important tasks of early development; girls who cut have not accomplished this developmental task or are seriously compromised in their efforts to do so. The connection between this observation, the psychosexual developmental antecedents of this deficit, and psychodynamic approaches to treatment are explored in the literature and in case reviews.
authors.affiliation: Bronx Children's Psychiatric Center & Montefiore Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, 3331 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, NY 10467, USA. lruberma@montefiore.org
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ruberman
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014930:Women / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult