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The Self-Injurious Patient

The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report, Volume 2, Number 3, April 2011
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From The Carlat Child Psychiatry Report, April 2011, Suicide and Non-Suicidal Self Injury

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Caroline Fisher, PhD, MD

When presented with a self-injuring patient, the first thing I try to find out is what the function of the self injury is. Is it suicidal? Did the patient want to die or think he or she might die? Often the answer is “no.”

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Joshua D. Feder, MD

A National Merit Scholar, Dr. Feder studied engineering and mathematics at Boston University, then continued in medicine on a Naval scholarship. He completed psychiatry residency at Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego, served during the first gulf war and completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, and eventually became Chief of Child Psychiatry and a faculty member at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Feder is now in active clinical practice in Solana Beach, California, serves as an adjunct professor at Fielding Graduate University, and participates in clinical research at UCSD School of Medicine. Dr. Feder is also active in developing technology to help people with autism and related challenges and serves as a senior consultant to the International Network for Peace Building with Young Children. In 2018 he co-authored the Child Medication Fact Book for Psychiatric Practice.

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