self-injury

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

Summary

self-injury is a defence mechanism[1]. self-injury ranks in the top 8% of defence_mechanism entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,362 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • self-injury's instance of is recorded as defence mechanism[3].
  • self-injury's instance of is recorded as symptom[4].
  • self-injury's instance of is recorded as medical diagnosis[5].
  • self-injury is a type of injury[6].
  • self-injury is a type of autoaggression[7].
  • self-injury is a type of intentional human activity[8].
  • self-injury's Commons category is recorded as Self harm[9].
  • self-injury's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Self-harm[10].
  • self-injury's possible treatment is recorded as psychotherapy[11].
  • self-injury's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C118206[12].
  • self-injury's health specialty is recorded as psychiatry[13].
  • self-injury's health specialty is recorded as clinical psychology[14].
  • self-injury's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0000742[15].

Body

Context

Recorded instance of include defence mechanism[3], symptom[4], and medical diagnosis[5].

Why It Matters

self-injury ranks in the top 8% of defence_mechanism entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,362 views/month).[2] self-injury has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] self-injury is known by 65 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . 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. [16] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). self-injury. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/self-injury
MLA “self-injury.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 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: 2026-05-03}}
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  1. 9d 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 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 21093, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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