The tender cut inside the hidden world of self-injury
Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990's and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gest...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798102506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Literature and Population
- 3 Studying Self-Injury
- 4 Becoming a Self-Injurer
- 5 The Phenomenology of the Cut
- 6 Loners in the Social World
- 7 Colleagues in the Cyber World
- 8 Self-Injury Communities
- 9 Self-Injury Relationships
- 10 The Social Transformation of Self-Injury
- 11 Careers in Self-Injury
- 12 Understanding Self-Injury
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Authors
