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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adler, Patricia A.
Otros Autores: Adler, Peter, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814705186
0814705189
9780814705414
0814705413