Cutting : understanding and overcoming self-mutilation / Steven Levenkron.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2006.Edition: Rev. edDescription: 275 p. 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393319385 (pbk.)
  • 9780393319385 (pbk.)
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Contents:
What is self-mutilation? -- The phenomenon of a self-destructive art -- Who is the self-mutilator? -- The reactions of others -- How the disorder takes shape -- How and why the disorder deepens -- Attachment patterns -- The benefits of self-wounding -- The value of pain in our culture -- The family system -- Incest and other childhood abuse: fusing pain with security -- A perspective on change -- Reaching out to reach in -- Who can be the helpers? -- Bumps along the road -- Caught between symptom and attachment -- Moving backwards to recovery -- Achieving genuine communication with others -- Analyzing and confronting the past -- Epilogue -- Afterword, 2006.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection RC 552 .S4 L48 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98633357

Previous ed.: 1998.

What is self-mutilation? -- The phenomenon of a self-destructive art -- Who is the self-mutilator? -- The reactions of others -- How the disorder takes shape -- How and why the disorder deepens -- Attachment patterns -- The benefits of self-wounding -- The value of pain in our culture -- The family system -- Incest and other childhood abuse: fusing pain with security -- A perspective on change -- Reaching out to reach in -- Who can be the helpers? -- Bumps along the road -- Caught between symptom and attachment -- Moving backwards to recovery -- Achieving genuine communication with others -- Analyzing and confronting the past -- Epilogue -- Afterword, 2006.

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