Riferimenti bibliografici di numerosi articoli e ricerche scientifiche pubblicate a livello internazionale sul tema delle condotte autolesive.

BRIERE, J., & GIL, E. (1998). Self-mutilation in clinical and general population samples: Prevalence, correlates, and functions. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 68, 609-620.

CERUTTI, R., MANCA, M., AMMANITI, M. (2008). Condotte autolesive in relazione ad esperienze traumatiche in un campione di adolescenti di Comunità , Atti del IV Convegno Internazionale dell'Associazione Italiana per la Salute Mentale Infantile (A.I.S.M.I.).

CERUTTI, R., FERRARA, M., MANCA, M., LAGANA', F., TERRINONI, A. (2008). Condotte autolesive in adolescenti con Disturbo di Personalità  del Cluster B, atti dell'8° Convegno Nazionale dei Gruppi Nazionali di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica dell'Adolescenza- AGIPPsA.

EVREN, C., EVREN, B. (2005). Self-mutilation in substance-dependent patients and relationship with childhood abuse and neglect, alexithymia and temperament and character dimensions of personality.   Drug and Alcohol Dependence Volume 80, Issue 1 , Pages 15-22.

FAVARO, A., & SANTONASTASO, P. (1998). Impulsive and compulsive self injurious behavior in bulimia nervosa: Prevalence and psychological correlates. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 186, 157–165.

FAVARO, A., & SANTONASTASO, P. (2000). Self-injurious behavior in anorexia nervosa. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 188, 537–542.

FAVAZZA, A. R., CONTERIO, K. (1988). The plight of chronic self-mutilators. Community Mental Health Journal, 24,22-30.

FAVAZZA, A. R. (1989). Why patients mutilate themselves. Hosp Community Psychiatry, 40(2):137-45.

FAVAZZA, A.R., DeROSEAR L., CONTERIO, K. (1989). Self-mutilation and eating disorders. Suicide Life Threat Behav, 19(4):352-61.

FAVAZZA, A. R. (1989). Normal and deviant self mutilation: An essay review. Transcultural Psychiatric
Research, 26, 113–127.

FAVAZZA, A. R. (1992). Repetitive self-mutilation. Psychiatric Annals, 22(2), 60-63.

FAVAZZA, A. R., ROSENTHAL, R. J. (1993). Diagnostic issues in self-mutilation. Hosp Community Psychiatry , 44(2):134-40.

FAVAZZA, A. R. (1998). The coming of age of self-mutilation. J Nerv Ment Dis. , 186(5):259-68.

FELDMAN, M.D. (1988). The challenge of self-mutilation: a review. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 29(3), 252-269.

FLIEGE, H., KOCALEVENT, R., WALTER, O. B., BECK, S., GRATZ, K. L., GUTIERREZ, P., et Al. (2006). Three assessment tools for deliberate self-harm and suicide behavior: Evaluation and psychopathological correlates. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 61, 113–121.

GARGIULO, A., MARGHERITA, G. (2014). Autolesività non suicidaria e genere: rassegna teorica e riflessioni psicodinamiche. Infanzia e Adolescenza, Vol. 13, n. 2, 2014.

GARGIULO, A., PLENER, P. L. , BAUS, N. , MARGHERITA, G., BRUNNER, R., KAESS,  M., KAPUSTA, N. D. (2014). Autolesività non suicidaria (NSSI) e disturbo da comportamento suicida (SBD) nella recente pubblicazione del DSM-5. Minerva Psichiatrica, 2014;55:83-90.

GILETTA, M., SCHOLTE, R.H.J., ENGELS, R., CIAIRANO, S., PRINSTEIN, M.J. (2013). Adolescent non-suicidal self-injury: A cross-national study of community samples from Italy, the Netherlands and the United States. Psychiatry Research, 197, 66–72.

GRATZ, K. L., CONRAD, S. D., ROEMER, L. (2002). Risk factors for deliberate self-harm among college students. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 72(1), 128–140.

GRATZ, K. L. (2003). Risk factors for and functions of deliberate self-harm: An empirical and conceptual review. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 10, 192-205.

HAINES, J., WILLIAMS, C.L., BRAIN, K.L., & WILSON, G.V. (1995). The psychobiology of self-mutilation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104(3), 471-489.

HAINES, J., & WILLIAMS, C. L. (1997). Coping and problem solving of selfmutilators. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 53, 177-186.

HERPERTZ, S. (1995). Self-injurious behavior: Psychopathological and nosological characteristics in subtypes of self-injurers. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 91, 57–68.

KAM-SHING YIP (2005). A Multi-Dimensional Perspective of Adolescents’ Self-Cutting.  Child and Adolescent Mental Health Volume 10, No. 2, pp. 80–86.

KLONSKY, E.D., OLTMANNS, T.F., TURKHEIMER, E. (2003). Deliberate Self-Harm in a Nonclinical Population : Prevalence and Psychological Correlates. Am J Psychiatry , 160:1501–1508.

MANCA, M., CERUTTI, R., PRESAGHI, F. (2005). Sviluppo e validazione di un questionario per la rilevazione della Sindrome da Autolesionismo Ripetitivo, Atti del VI Congresso Nazionale AIP -Sezione di Psicologia Clinica.

MANCA, M., PRESAGHI, F., CERUTTI, R. (2005). Clinical specificity of acute versus chronic self-injury: Measurement and evaluation of repetitive non-suicidal self-injury. Psychiatry Research, 215, 111–119.

MARGHERITA, G., GARGIULO, A. (2014). A comparison between pro-anorexia and non-suicidal self-injury blogs: From symptom-based identity to sharing of emotions. Psychodynamic Practice, Volume 24, 2018 - Issue 4, pp. 346-363.

MARTORANA, G. (2009). Analisi descrittiva del comportamento di autoferimento in una popolazione non clinica. Indagine esplorativa attraverso internet. Rivista di Psichiatria, Vol.44, n.3. Maggio-Giugno 2009.

MARTORANA, G., ALFANO, P. (2014). Gruppi di “peer support” on line rivolti a giovani con condotte autolesionistiche. Un’analisi linguistica mediante liwc delle interazioni in gruppo.  Poster presentato al  XVI Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia clinica e dinamica, Pisa, 21 settembre 2014.

MARTORANA, G., PURROMUTO, C. (2006). Il  comportamento di autoferimento (Self Injurious Behavior).  Una breve rassegna teorica.  Pubblicato sul sito: Laboratorio di Psicologia, presso URL: HTTP://WWW.PSICOLAB.IT/ARTICLES.ASP?ID=14.

MARTORANA, G., PURROMUTO, C. (2007). Indagine esplorativa su di un gruppo di self injurers italiani”. Atti del IX Congresso Nazionale AIP, Sezione di Psicologia Clinica e Dinamica.

MARTORANA, G., PURROMUTO, C., EPIFANIO, M.S., ALFANO, P. (2008). Il “Self Injury” In Italia. Risultati Preliminari di un’indagine esplorativa attraverso Internet.  Atti del 8° Convegno Nazionale dei Gruppi Nazionali di Psicoterapia Psicoanalitica dell’adolescenza - AGIPPsA.

MILLER, F., & BASHKIN, E.A. (1974). Depersonalization and self-mutilation. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 43, 638-649.

MUEHLENKAMP, J. J. (2005). Self-Injurious behavior as a separate clinical sindrome. American journal of orthopsichiatry , Vol.75, n°2, 324-333.

MURRAY, C. D., WARM, A., FOX, J., (2005). An Internet survey of adolescent Self-injurers. Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health (AeJAMH), Volume 4, Issue 1, 2005.

NOCK, M. K., PRINSTEIN M. J. (2004). A functional approach to the assessment of self-mutilative behavior. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology ,  Vol. 72, n° 5, 885-890.

NOCK, M. K., PRINSTEIN M. J. (2005). Contextual features and behavioral functions of self-mutilation among adolescents. Journal of abnormal psychology ,  Vol. 114, n° 1, 140-146.

OLIVERIO FERRARIS, A. (2011). Ferirsi per sentirsi meglio. Psicologia Contemporanea, marzo-aprile 2011, n.224.

PAIVIO, S. C., MCCULLOCH, C. R. (2004). Alexithymia as a mediator between childhood trauma and self-injurious behaviors. Child abuse & neglect 28, 339-354.

PAO, P.E. (1969). The syndrome of delicate self-cutting. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 42, 195-206.

PATTISON, M. E., & KAHAN, J. (1983). The deliberate self-harm syndrome. American Journal of Psychiatry, 140, 867–872.

PAUL, T. , SCHROETER, K. , DAHME, B. , NUTZINGER, D. O. (2002),  Self-Injurious Behavior in women with eating disorders. Am J Psychiatry 159:408-411.

PRASAD, V., OWENS, D. (2001). Using the internet as a source of self-help for people who self-harm. Psychiatric Bullettin (2001), 25, 222-225.

RICHARD, B. (2005). Les comportements de scarification chez l’adolescent. Neuropsychiatrie de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, 53 134–141.

SHAPIRO, S. (1987). Self-mutilation and self-blame in incest victims. Amercian Journal of Psychotherapy, XLI(1), 46-54.

SIMEON, D., STANLEY, B., FRANCES, A., MANN, J.J., WINCHEL, R., & STANLEY, M. (1992). Self-mutilation in personality disorders: psychological and biological correlates. American Journal of Psychiatry, 149, 221-226.

SIMEON, D., STEIN, D. J., & HOLLANDER, E. (1995). Depersonalization disorder and self-injurious behavior. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 56(Suppl. 4), 36–39.

SIMPSON, M.A. (1976). Self-mutilation. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 16, 430-438.

STANLEY, B., GAMEROFF, M. J., MICHALSEN, V., & MANN, J. J. (2001). Are suicide attempters who self-mutilate a unique population? American Journal of Psychiatry, 158, 427–432.

SUTTON, J. (2004). Understanding dissociation and its relationship to self-injury and childhood trauma. Presso l'URL: Http://www.siari.co.uk.

SUYEMOTO, K. L. (1998). The functions of self-mutilation. Clinical Psychology Review, Vol.18, N°5, pp.531-554.

VAN DER KOLK, B.A., PERRY, J.C., HERMAN, J.L. (1991). Childhood origins of self-destructive behavior. Am J Psychiatry ; 148:1665-1671.

WEISSMAN, M. (1975). Wrist cutting. Archives of General Psychiatry, 32, 1166-1171.

WINCHEL, R.M. & STANLEY, M. (1991). Self-injurious behavior: A review of the behavior and biology of self-mutilation. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148(3), 306-317.

YATES, T. M. (2004). The developmental psychopathology of self-injurious behavior : Compensatory regulation in posttraumatic adaptation . Clinical Psychology Review 24 , 35–74.

ZLOTNICK, C., SHEA, M. T., PEARLSTEIN, T., SIMPSON, E., COSTELLO, E., & BEGIN, A. (1996). The relationship between dissociative symptoms, alexithymia, impulsivity, sexual abuse, and self mutilation. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 37, 12–16.