The Tender Cut : : Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury /

The Tender Cut : : Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury / / Peter Adler, Patricia A. Adler.

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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, T...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Adler, Patricia A.,
Adler, Peter,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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