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Self-destructive behavior

Here are entered works on nonstereotyped behaviors and cognitions by which individuals directly or indirectly cause harm to themselves. Works on stereotyped behaviors by which individuals unintentionally cause damage to their bodies are entered under Self-injurious behavior. Works on behaviors by which individuals intentionally cause damage to their bodies are entered under Self-mutilation.

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• Psychology, Pathological

• Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction
• Self-destructive behavior -- Russia (Federation)

• Self-destructiveness

• Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (New York: National Book Co., c1890), by Marie Corelli (page images at Google)

• The Slave Soul of Russia: Moral Masochism and the Cult of Suffering (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Values and Personality: An Existential Psychology of Crisis (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1950), by Werner Wolff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Biology of Human Conflict: An Anatomy of Behavior, Individual and Social (New York: Macmillan, 1937), by Trigant Burrow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Freudian Slips: Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Mary S. Gossy (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
• The Psychology of Mental Disorders (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Abraham Myerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Neurasthenische Angstaffect bei Zwangsvorstellungen und der Primordiale Grübelzwang (in German; Vienna and Leipzig: F. Deuticke, 1892), by Hanns Kaan
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The History of the Prison Psychoses (1912), by Paul H. Nitsche and Karl Wilmanns, trans. by Francis Barnes and Bernard Glueck (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Study of Association in Insanity, by Grace Helen Kent and A. J. Rosanoff (Gutenberg text)
• Theory and Practice of Psychiatry (St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1936), by William S. Sadler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mind at Mischief: Tricks and Deceptions of the Subconscious and How to Cope With Them (1929), by William S. Sadler, contrib. by Robert H. Gault and Meyer Solomon (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• An Astrological Study of Psychological Complexes, by Dane Rudhyar (HTML at khaldea.com)
• The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, by Otto Rank, trans. by F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Studies in Forensic Psychiatry (Criminal Science Monograph #2; 1916), by Bernard Glueck (Gutenberg text)
• The Unconscious: The Fundamentals of Human Personality, Normal and Abnormal (second edition; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Morton Prince (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Instinct and the Unconscious: A Contribution to a Biological Theory of the Psycho-Neuroses, by W. H. R. Rivers (HTML at York)
• Men Under Stress (Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1945), by Roy R. Grinker and John P. Spiegel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychopathology of Everyday Life, by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (HTML at York)
• The Theory of Psychoanalysis (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., 1915), by C. G. Jung
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens (Über Vergessen, Versprechen, Vergreifen, Aberglaube und Irrtum) (in German; Berlin: S. Karger, 1904), by Sigmund Freud (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Studi Anatomici sul Cranio e sull'Encefalo Psicologici e Freniatrici (3 volumes, in Italian; Milan: Manini-Wiget, 1896-1897), by Andrea Verga (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pathologie Mentale des Rois de France, Louis XI et Ses Ascendants: Une Vie Humaine Étudiée à Travers Six Siècles d'Hérédité, 852-1483 (in French; Paris: Hachette et cie, 1903), by Auguste Brachet, ed. by Anna Korff Brachet
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Observations on Insanity: With Practical Remarks on the Disease, and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection (London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1798), by John Haslam (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the Mind (Philadelphia: Kimber and Richardson, 1812), by Benjamin Rush (page images at Dickinson)

• Annual Review of Clinical Psychology (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology (partial serial archives)
• The Journal of Mental Science (partial serial archives)
• The Asylum Journal of Mental Science (full serial archives)
• Annales Médico-Psychologiques (in French) (partial serial archives)

• Freud and the Scientific Method (1980), by Paul Rosenfels (HTML with commentary at rosenfels.org)

• Biographical Directory of Fellows and Members of the American Psychiatric Association, by American Psychiatric Association (partial serial archives)

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2012), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at NIH)
• The ADHD Book: Living Right Now! (scroll down for the free version, in HTML chapters), by Martin L. Kutscher (illustrated HTML with commentary at pediatricneurology.com)

• Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2017), by John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro, and Filip Miscevic (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Bodies in Protest: Environmental Illness and the Struggle Over Medical Knowledge (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by J. Stephen Kroll-Smith and H. Hugh Floyd (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Mental Illness: A Guide for the Family (revised edition; New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1945), by Edith M. Stern and Samuel W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness: What Caregivers Need to Know (Vancouver: BCCampus, c2015), by Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (multiple formats with commentary at opentextbc.ca)
• Every Family in the Land: Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination Against People with Mental Illness, by Royal Society of Medicine, ed. by Arthur Crisp (HTML at archive.org)
• A Secret Worth Knowing: A Treatise on the Most Important Subject in the World, Simply to Say, Insanity (1846), by G. Grimes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Statistical Manual for the Use of Institutions for the Insane (1918), by American Medico-Psychological Association and National Committee for Mental Hygiene
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Reluctantly Told (New York: Macmillan, 1931), by Jane Hillyer, contrib. by Joseph Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Psychology of Mental Disorders (New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Abraham Myerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on Insanity (Sheffield: Printed by W. Todd for Messrs. Cadell and Davies, 1806), by Philippe Pinel, trans. by D. D. Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Theory and Practice of Psychiatry (St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Co., 1936), by William S. Sadler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Phantasmata: or, Illusions and Fanaticisms of Protean Forms, Productive of Great Evils (2 volumes; London: T. C. Newby, 1857), by Richard Robert Madden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology (Criminal Science Monograph #1; 1915), by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (Gutenberg text)

• Narcissus: A Psychological Study of Self-Love (New York: Macmillan, 1955), by Grace Croll Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)

• You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought, by Peter McWilliams (HTML at drugsense.org)

• Instinct and the Unconscious: A Contribution to a Biological Theory of the Psycho-Neuroses, by W. H. R. Rivers (HTML at York)
• The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic Psychology and Psychotherapy (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1917), by Alfred Adler, trans. by Bernard Glueck and John E. Lind (page images at Cornell)
• The Neurotic Constitution: Outlines of a Comparative Individualistic Psychology and Psychotherapy (New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1921), by Alfred Adler, trans. by Bernard Glueck and John E. Lind (page images at Cornell)
• Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., c1909), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Theory of Psychoanalysis (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Pub. Co., 1915), by C. G. Jung
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.