Most of us know what it’s like to be a teenager at school – and how it feels to fit into (or fall outside of) a school’s social hierarchy. This typically includes some version of the popular kids, the ...

Patterns that look self-defeating often have a deeper logic, according to a new psychological analysis by Charlie Heriot-Maitland, a clinical psychologist whose work examines why people harm ...

It has been said that vengeance is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. Every choice for payback is also a choice to coarsen our hearts. Since our hearts are inside us, they ...

Around 1 in 6 adolescents worldwide report having self-harmed at some point in their lives. In England, an NHS mental health ...

According to the dictionary, self-harm is a deliberate injury to oneself, typically as a manifestation of a psychological or psychiatric disorder. Or the verb meaning to commit self-harm. Self-harm ...

One in ten Norwegian adolescents has engaged in deliberate self-harm without intending to commit suicide. For the first time, researchers have taken an in-depth look at the correlation between ...