Tattoos as a window to the psyche:How talking about skin art can inform psychiatric practice

作     者：Hannah Roggenkamp Andrew Nicholls Joseph M Pierre 

作者机构：Mental Illness ResearchEducation and Clinical CenterVA Puget Sound Healthcare System VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral SciencesDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Psychiatry》 (世界精神病学杂志)

年 卷 期：2017年第7卷第3期

页      面：148-158页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100205[医学-精神病与精神卫生学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Tattoos Military psychiatry Deviance Skin art Psychopathology Psychology 

摘      要：Tattooing the skin as a means of personal expression is a ritualized practice that has been around for centuries across many different ***,the symbolic meaning of tattoos has evolved over time and is highly individualized,from both the internal perspective of the wearer and the external perspective of an *** modern Western societies through the 1970 s,tattoos represented a cultural taboo,typically associated with those outside of the mainstream such as soldiers,incarcerated criminals,gang members,and others belonging to marginalized and counter-cultural *** paper aims to review the more recent epidemiology of tattoos in Western culture in order to establish that tattooing has become a mainstream *** then review psychological and psychiatric aspects of tattoos,with a goal of revising outmoded stigmas about tattooing and helping clinicians working with tattooed patients to facilitate an exploration of the personal meaning of skin art and *** suggest that as a kind of augmentation of the physical exam,looking at and talking to patients about their tattoos can provide a valuable window into the psyche,informing clinical practice.