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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adler, Patricia A.
Other Authors: Adler, Peter, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, ©2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Self-injurious behavior.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Social isolation.
Stress (Psychology)
Self-mutilation.
Self-torture.
Stress (Physiology)
Social ecology.
Self-Injurious Behavior > psychology
Adaptation, Psychological
Social Environment
Social Isolation > psychology
Stress, Psychological > psychology
Self Mutilation
Self-Injurious Behavior
Social Isolation
Stress, Psychological
Stress, Physiological
Automutilation.
Adaptation (Psychologie)
Isolement social.
Stress.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Nervous System (incl. Brain)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Social ecology
Self-torture
Self-mutilation
Self-injurious behavior
Social isolation
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 252 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780814705186
0814705189
9780814705414
0814705413

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