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self-injury

intentional injury to one's own body without the intention to kill oneself
Event defence_mechanism Q622527
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Summary

self-injury is a defence mechanism[1]. self-injury ranks in the top 8% of defence mechanism entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16,126 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: symptom[3], medical diagnosis[4]
  • Subclass of: injury[5], autoaggression[6], intentional human activity[7]
  • Commons category: Self harm[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Self-harm[9]
  • Possible treatment: psychotherapy[10]
  • NCI Thesaurus ID: C118206[11]
  • Health specialty: psychiatry[12], clinical psychology[13]
  • Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000742[14]

Why It Matters

self-injury has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] self-injury is known by 96 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Human Phenotype Ontology release 2018-03-08. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). self-injury. Retrieved October 13, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/self-injury
MLA “self-injury.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 13 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/self-injury.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_self-injury_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{self-injury}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/self-injury}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-13}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0262636-sebeposkozovani
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0262636-sebeposkozovani, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259496|batch #259496]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → injury, autoaggression, intentional human activity
    Instance of → defence mechanism, symptom, medical diagnosis
    Topic's main category → Category:Self-harm
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ Yso id: 21093, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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