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She acknowledged with blunted affect that she cannot stop self mutilation, and described how she cut herself through the muscles in her abdomen almost down to the fascia.
They were identified as such by their high deficit score, which was calculated by subtracting their combined total scores on the widely used Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) for items addressing hostility, guilt, anxiety, and depression, from their combined scores for poverty of speech and blunted affect.
But there are nuances to Benning's "flatness"; this view of a world of blunted affect is not totalizing, as her work's limited dimensionality actually heightens her portrayal of subjectivity.
 
 
 
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