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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | 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 gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injur. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814705186 0814705189 9780814705414 0814705413 |