Autolesión y género; una revisión documental

Abstract

Self-harm without suicidal intent is a phenomenon that, according to studies, occurs mainly in adolescent-age women, which implies some important peculiarities. This research seeks to approach the phenomenon of self-harm without suicidal intention in female adolescents, from a documentary review, to understand from the constructivist, constructionist and complex systemic paradigm, the experience of non-suicidal self-harm from the gender perspective in young adolescents and their families, in investigations carried out from 2010 to 2020. For this, different databases were consulted such as Redalyc, Dialnet, Scielo, and Taylor & Francis and academic Google, the findings of 29 articles were collected. Aspects of self-injury and gender were found that are synthesized in four themes: The role of the family in the experience of self-injury of young women, subjectivity and identity in the experience of self-injury, ecology of self-injury and the understanding of the relationship self-harm and gender. Finally, from the gender perspective, aspects of the symbolic order, the social imaginary and the subjective imaginary that underlie self-injurious behaviors in adolescent women and their families are evidenced.