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

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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 gestu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Adler, Patricia A. (Autor), Adler, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2011]
Temas:
Adaptability (Psychology).
Parasuicide.
Self-injurious behavior in adolescence.
Self-injurious behavior.
Self-mutilation in adolescence.
Self-mutilation.
Self-torture.
Social ecology.
Social isolation.
Stress (Physiology).
Stress (Psychology).
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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