[Deliberate self-harm (DSH). Between constraint and relief]

Abstract

This article is the product of the research work done on "Deliberate self-harm -DSH-: a constraint way to open to the world?" in which this Deliberate Self Harm was explored as from the phenomenological psychopathology and the suicidology theoretical approach, such research being done on the subjective and reflective narrations of people undergoing such problems, coming from different sources. Some discourse patterns are exposed that may be considered of great usefulness for the identification, the treatment -or postvention-, as well as for the prevention of the problem at issue. As an annex, a Survey of Self-harm is presented made for data collection and the planning of actions in communitarian interventions with adolescents form different places in Argentina, in conjunction with the Argentinean Professional Team of the Argentinean Association for Suicide Prevention.