Earlier, in his State of the Union address, he catalogued "methods used in the torture chambers of Iraq: electric shock, burning with hot irons, dripping acid on the skin, mutilation with electric drills, cutting out tongues, and rape".
Captive birds are sometimes known to engage in feather-plucking, causing damage to feathers that can range from feather shredding to the removal of most or all feathers within the bird's reach, or even the mutilation of skin or muscle tissue.
The patient admitted the self-mutilation by causing the skin lesions herself, but without being able to explain the automutilation, most of the time being unaware of doing it; furthermore, she did not claim any delusions of parasitosis.
Only 983 (84.5%) mutilated participants remembered who performed mutilation for them.
In Uganda, Dr. Bailey said, traditional circumcisions can be "extreme, cutting the skin far down the shaft," causing healing problems and sometimes mutilation or death.
Bronstein films the physical harm that the characters inflict on each other and on themselves — including self-mutilation with an X-Acto knife, allergy-blemished skin rubbed raw for kicks, and dumb, brutal fistfights — with terrible sympathy; the extraordinarily expressive images, shot in low light, are rough and grainy, as though they were scarred as well.
Cronenberg and Wagner manage to crawl under your skin with their repulsive characters and the former's signature instances of body mutilation -- said arson/battery, incest (so trendy lately) and also a rather grotesque use of the now-extinct Genie Award (another moment of industry humor).
In two of the articles from the Mount Sinai Hospital (1971 and 1972), a very distinctive form of mutilation was mentioned, that of carving letters or words into the skin.
Novotny's opening sentence also differentiated self-mutilation from suicide: 'Minor self-inflicted cuts of areas of the skin constitute a symptom carried out without serious suicidal intent' (1972: 505).
Mutilation was a language.
