0 If an injury or a problem is self-inflicted, you have caused it yourself:
1 (of something bad) done to yourself:
a self-inflicted wound
Whether self-inflicted or caused by others, physical pain was a way of affirming the boundaries of identity.
Some of the wounds may have been self-inflicted.
A fifth, self-inflicted injuries, is usually a consequence of mental illness.
The 1990 worldwide incidence of self-inflicted injuries or those due to violent actions (excluding war) toward others was 225.4 per 100,000.
Costs consist of self-inflicted damages plus compensation paid, minus compensation received.
Here the ' punishment ' is in a sense self-inflicted.
Monastic self-inflicted pain has nothing to do with it.
He writes mostly with amused detachment, sustaining a gently ironic tone until brought up short by the harsh reality of self-inflicted death.
