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SELF INJURY
..Title: The Luckiest Girl in the World *read more/buy*
..Author: Steven Levenkron
..Pages: 192 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 75,491
..Summary: "There's not much subtlety in either characterization (the humane psychiatrist, the horrible mother, the supportive therapy group) or plot. But Levenkron evokes the magical thinking, the loss of control, and the other psychological particulars associated with self-mutilation so adeptly that readers can't help but be drawn into Katie's bizarre, frightening world. The girl's struggle to regain control won't be easy to forget."
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..Title: Healing the Hurt Within: Understanding and Relieving the Suffering Behind Self-Distructive Behavior *read more/buy*
..Author: Jane Sutton
..Pages: 255 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 45,393
..Summary: "Healing the Hurt Within focuses on the much misunderstood area of self-harm, what one sufferer describes as 'agony art'. Very far from being attention-seeking and quite the opposite of a suicide bid, it is only now becoming understood as a valuable, albeit destructive, coping mechanism to withstand intolerable emotional pain. Another self-harmer in the book says pointedly and poignantly -- 'I harm myself to enable me to live'..."
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..Title: Bodies Under Siege *read more/buy*
..Author: Armando R. Favazza
..Pages: 352 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 101,495
..Summary: Bodies Under Siege presents information about self-mutilation form differing perspectives. Biological data are considered, as are psychological and social data. Since biology, psychology, and social forces do not exist in a vacuum, the author attempted to place them within the overarching web or culture in order to produce a meaningful synthesis.
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..Title: Cry of Pain: Understanding Suicide and Self-Harm *read more/buy*
..Author: Mark Williams
..Pages: 288 (paperback)
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..Summary: "A central idea of the book is that suicide and attempted suicide are most often a cry of pain, like the cry of an animal caught in a trap. The suicidal person is rendered helpless by things that are happening around them and by their own mental anguish. Struggling to get free only seems to make matters worse. The book deliberately moves away from seeing suicidal behaviour as a cry for help, since such an explanation is so often used nowadays to dismiss such behaviour as unimportant."
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..Title: Everything You Need to Know About Self-Mutilation *read more/buy*
..Author: Gina Ng
..Pages: 64 (library binding)
..Sales Ranking: 59,986
..Summary: "The author offers information on where to find help and basic advice on what a friend can do for someone caught up in this destructive cycle. Throughout the text, anecdotes and black-and-white and color photographs put a human face on this particular disorder. The book concludes with a glossary and names and addresses of helpful organizations and Web sites."
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..Title: Crosses *read more/buy*
..Author: Shelley Stoehr
..Pages: 160 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 58,943
..Summary: "Nancy doesn't have a best friend, until she meets Katie in the bathroom at school. She and Katie have something in common: they both cut themselves. At first, it's just fun—like the drugs and alcohol and shoplifting—and Nancy and Katie don't talk about why they do it. But soon Nancy realizes that she and Katie need cutting to get through the day. Nancy can cover the scars on her arms and legs. It's the others, the ones inside, that are becoming hard to hide."
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..Title: Cut *read more/buy*
..Author: Patty McCormick
..Pages: 168 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 31,181
..Summary: "When she arrives at Sea Pines, Callie is self-destructive, unresponsive, and withdrawn. Her parents and doctor have placed her in the "residential treatment facility" after discovering that she cuts herself. Callie refuses to talk to anyone, including her psychiatrist. But slowly, through compelling first-person narrative, the event that traumatized her comes to light."
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..Title: The Scarred Soul: Understanding and Ending Self-Inflicted Violence *read more/buy*
..Author: Tracy Alderman
..Pages: 216 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 8,748
..Summary: "The Scarred Soul is the first book written for the victims of self-inflicted violence - and the first to teach them what they can do to stop hurting themselve"
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..Title: Women Living with Self-Injury *read more/buy*
..Author: Jane Wegscheider Hyman
..Pages: 214 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 82,522
..Summary: "They cut their arms and legs with knives and razors; scratch at their skin; burn, bruise, or stick themselves with cigarettes, hammers, pins, and other objects; bang their heads and limbs; and break their own bones. Although women who live with self-injury have recently gained recognition in the media, they have, as a result, become even more stigmatized. "
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..Title: Cutting *read more/buy*
..Author: Steven Levenkron
..Pages: 269 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 13,870
..Summary: "Cutting takes the reader through the psychological experience of the person who seeks relief from mental anguish in self-inflicted physical pain. Steven Levenkron traces the components that predispose a personality to self-mutilation: genetics, famility experience, childhood trauma, and parental behavior. Written for self-mutilators, parents, friends, and therapists, this book explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors and, mostof all, describes how self-mutilators can be helped."
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..Title: A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain *read more/buy*
..Author: Marlee Strong
..Pages: 234 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 13,722
..Summary/Quotes: "Meet Daphne, age sixteen. There are times when she hurts so bad, 'too deep for tears,' that she must shed her own blood to 'let out some of the hurt.' There's Annie, a woman who stopped injuring herself years ago but admits that she would cut again because she loves her scars too much, loves the control they give her over her own body. And Lukas, a forty-three-year old lawyer, describes the powerful, soothing rush he gets from his self-induced wounds: 'The feeling I get when the blood comes out is better than anything. It's better than drinking,k it's better than any drug I've ever taken, it's better than sex.' Why dos ome people need to inflict pain on themselves? At least two million Americans, and millions more worldwide, are cutters--notably, the late Princess Diana. Yet, the reasons behind the need to self-mutilate are profoundly complex and largely misunderstood. Marlee Strong shatters the stereotypes and dispels the myths surrounding the phenomenon of self-mutilation and gets to the heart of the matter by way of her subjects. The voices of cutters themselves,k combined with Strong's own astute observations, make for an unparalleled exploration of the disorder that has been called the 'addiction of the nineties.'"
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..Title:Self-Mutilation: Theory, Research, & Treatment *read more/buy*
..Author: Barent W. Walsh, Paul M. Rosen
..Pages: 273 (hardcover)
..Sales Ranking: 173,919
..Summary: "Thorough treatment of a disturbing phenomenon. Provides insight for the broad range of mental health professionals who come in contact with self-destructive behaviors. "
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..Title: Skin Game: A Cutter's Memoir *read more/buy*
..Author: Caroline Kettlewell
..Pages: 192 (paperback)
..Sales Ranking: 67,759
..Summary/Quotes: "[This] mesmeric memoir examines the obsession with cutting that is believed to afflict somewhere around two million Americans, nearly all of them female...[Kettlewell's] language soars and its intensity deepens whenever she is recalling the lost joys and the thrilling sensation of sharp steel against her tender skin."
..Review
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