Aggression directed towards others vs. aggression directed towards the self: clinical differences between intermittent explosive disorder and nonsuicidal self-injury

Objective: To investigate the clinical differences between intermittent explosive disorder (IED) (disorder of aggression primarily directed towards others) and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) (disorder of aggression predominantly directed towards the self) in order to better understand the different...

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Main Authors: Gustavo C. Medeiros, Liliana Seger-Jacob, Anna K. Garreto, Hyoun S. Kim, Emil F. Coccaro, Hermano Tavares
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) 2019-03-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-44462019005005101&lng=en&tlng=en