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 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gestu...

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Main Author: Adler, Patricia A.
Other Authors: Adler, Peter, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2011]
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