Publicación:

Avances en la comprensión de las autolesiones físicas en la adolescencia.

Resumen

This systematic review aims to understand the progress of physical self-harm in adolescents, the act of self-harm can be derived in many ways, one of them may be because the adolescent experiences an emotional pain or anguish, that the subject will seek how to externalize those feelings , currently self-injury is a phenomenon that has a great impact on adolescents, with this research we want to cover the various contexts where these types of self-injury can be identified. A search of articles in official journals of research, Psychoanalytic Openness, Poiesis, Electronic psychology journal, Asefo, taking into account articles and projects of undergraduate and postgraduate of Spanish language, English and Portuguese of the year 2000 to 2017, were obtained 50 references which were classified and organized to meet the general objective. The results of the review indicate that teens who self-injure, rather than think about their body; show him to the Other with writings of suffering, traumas and symbolizations of his own history.