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Managing Self-Harm
Psychological Perspectives
- Edited by Anna Motz.
Published June 2009
Self-harm often arises at moments of despair or emotional intensity, and its reasons are not necessarily available to the conscious mind. Managing Self-Harm explores the meaning and impact of self-harm, and the sense in which it is a language of the body. It is designed to help…
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Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Practice, Theory and Prevention
- Edited by Stephen Briggs, Alessandra Lemma and William Crouch.
Published April 2008
Relating to Self-Harm and Suicide presents original studies and research from contemporary psychoanalysts, therapists and academics focusing on the psychoanalytic understanding of suicide and self-harm, and how this can be applied to clinical work and policy.
This powerful critique of current…
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Culture and Self-Harm
Attempted Suicide in South Asians in London
- By Dinesh Bhugra.
Published September 2004
Attempted suicide is a matter of serious public health concern. Culture and Self-Harm considers the factors that may contribute to this increased rate of self-harm and suicide among south Asians in London, which cannot be blamed on migration alone. Cultural pressures that dictate the way stress is…
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Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders
Dynamics, Assessment, and Treatment
- Edited by John L. Levitt, Ph.D., Randy A. Sansone, M.D. and Leigh Cohn, M.A.T..
Published August 2004
The number of eating disorders patients presenting with symptoms of self-harm is growing quickly, and yet there is surprisingly little known about this unique population. Self-Harm Behavior and Eating Disorders explores the prevalent but largely uncharted relationship between self-injury behaviors…
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Life After Self-Harm
A Guide to the Future
- By Ulrike Schmidt, and Kate Davidson.
Published March 2004
In many countries there has been an alarming increase in rates of suicide and self-harm, yet the stigma attached to these difficulties often leads to sub-optimal care. Life After Self-Harm: A Guide to the Future is written for individuals who have deliberately harmed themselves. Developed through a…
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Self-Harm
A Psychotherapeutic Approach
- By Fiona Gardner.
Published October 2001
Self-harm is worryingly common in young women, and is often used as a way of easing emotional suffering. Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach explores the issues involved from the perspective of a psychoanalytical psychotherapist. Fiona Gardner examines these issues through extensive clinical…
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Women and Self Harm
Understanding, Coping and Healing from Self-Mutilation
- By Gerrilyn Smith, Dee Cox and Jacqui Saradjian.
Published March 1999