单词 | self-harming |
释义 | self-harmingn. The deliberate inflicting of injury or harm upon oneself, esp. as a manifestation of a psychiatric or psychological disorder. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > injury to oneself self-harm1614 self-offencea1628 self-injury1638 self-infliction1674 self-harming1957 self-abuse1970 1957 T. Reik Myth & Guilt ii. 30 One of the most interesting and puzzling signs is an unconscious need for punishment that finds means to express itself in acts of self-harming, self-sabotaging, and self-frustrating. 1990 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Aug. It's the younger element of society where the attention-seeking, self-harming, attempted suicides, and indeed actual suicides, are occurring. 2004 Community Care 8 Apr. 38/1 Self-harming most commonly takes the form of cutting the skin and overdosing on painkillers. 2017 Sunday Express (Nexis) 21 May 11 The number of girls aged 12 and below hospitalised for self-harming has increased almost fourfold in the past five years. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). self-harmingadj. That causes harm to oneself; that engages in or involves self-harm; (in later use) spec. engaging in or involving deliberate self-harm as a manifestation of a psychiatric or psychological disorder. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. i. 101 Selfe-harming Iealousie; fie beat it hence. View more context for this quotation a1642 W. Crompton Wilderness of Trouble (1679) ii. 76 It is our self-harming league with Sin, that the Lord goeth about to break. 1740 E. Smith Forty Two Serm. II. i. 13 Nothing in the whole World, but Man, is capable of such a self-harming Madness. 1865 W. M. Rossetti Let. 30 Apr. in Rossetti-Macmillan Lett. (1963) 52 How about advertizing?..My wish however is to economize in that direction as far as reasonable & not self-harming. 1957 T. Reik Myth & Guilt xix. 241 Unconscious guilt feeling will..press either in the direction of self-harming acts in which the need for punishment is gratified or to a repetition of the forbidden deed that caused the guilt feeling. 1974 Brit. Jrnl. Preventative & Social Med. 28 202/2 Antisocial or self-harming behaviour. 1998 Jrnl. Adolescence 21 555 A high number of deliberately self-harming girls had a mental illness. 2015 Middlebury Campus (Middlebury College, Vermont) 18 Mar. 1 The prisoner's mental health condition severely worsened, leading to self-harming behaviors, suicidal thoughts, and extended bouts of crying. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1957adj.a1616 |
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