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Why Do We Hurt Ourselves? : Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life /

Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves' What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives' In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves, sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brossard, Baptiste, 1985- (Autor, Traductor)
Otros Autores: Todd, Rohan (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A practice of self-control
  • The first time
  • Toward a feeling of dependence
  • Talking about self-injury?
  • Quitting
  • Self-injury on a regular basis
  • On the manners to self-injure
  • A social positioning practice
  • The staging of discretion
  • At the origin of "relational problems"
  • The existential crisis
  • What gender represents
  • What some events imply
  • Conclusion: a relational map of self-injury
  • Conclusion: a self-controlled youth
  • Notes
  • Index.