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Each year nearly two million people hurt their own bodies with knives, scissors, glass, cigarettes, candles, and any destructive item they can get their hands on. In Skin Deep, patients and experts explain why people harm themselves and how they can recover from this secret affliction which affects as many people as anorexia. While the self-inflicted scars may be kept hidden, it₂s time to expose information about self-injury to reach young people,...

This volume presents a comprehensive nosology of self-injurious behaviors, classifying them as stereotypic (e.g., head banging, seen mostly in developmentally disabled patients), major (e.g., castration, a rare complication of psychosis), compulsive (e.g., hair pulling), and impulsive (e.g., skin picking). Its distinguished contributors cover both the theoretical and the practical as they discuss these categories in relation to phenomenology, biological...

"Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Developed through a major research project, the contents of the manual have been informed and shaped by many users and expert professionals. Illustrated with multiple case histories, it teaches users important skills." "Health workers who regularly come into contact with individuals who have self-harmed will find the wealth of practical...

"Describes a [self-harming] woman's charged attachment to a mental health professional and the dangerous compulsion to keep him in her life at all costs"--Amazon.com. "As a young college graduate a year into treatment with a psychiatrist, Cree LeFavour began to organize her days around the cruel, compulsive logic of self-harm: with each newly lit cigarette, the world would drop away as her focus narrowed on the blooming release of pleasure-pain as...

Puts the current thinking on suicide into historical context tracing how people have thought and felt about it for thousands of years.

Summary At heart, suicide is a subversive act: the assertion of individual will against public authority. How is it, then, that the act of suicide -- one with defiant political implications -- has come to be viewed as the last refuge of the self-destructive victim? In Leaving You, Lisa Lieberman explores the puzzle of our reigning perception of suicide. Drawing on diverse sources, from biblical stories to Romantic novels, from philosophical theories...

"Self-harm is thought by many to be a modern epidemic: a phenomenon of the late twentieth century, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, particularly young women. Yet it was 150 years ago, within early asylum psychiatry, that self-mutilation was first codified as a category of behaviour, and explanations for a variety of self-injurious acts were conceived very differently. Psyche on the Skin charts the secret history of self-harm....

"Understanding Self-Injury: A Person-Centered Approach offers a new way to think about self-injury that simultaneously draws on the latest empirical research and the insights of individuals who self-injure. Stephen P. Lewis and Penelope A. Hasking not only cover the latest scientific and clinical advances in the field but also tackle issues that individuals face every day: stigma, social media, conceptualizations of recovery, and advocacy. This book...

Cutting takes the render through the psychological experience of the person who seeks relief from mental anguish in self-inflected physical pain.