Making Sense of Self-harm [electronic resource] : The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury /
Steggals, Peter.author.
Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative approach to understanding nonsuicidal self-injury; using Cultural Sociology to analyse it more as a practice than an illness and exploring it as a powerful cultural idiom of personal distress and social estrangement that is peculiarly resonant with the symbolic life of late-modern society.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: The Signifying Wound -- 1. What is Self-Harm? -- 2. The Problem of Good Understanding -- 3. The Ontological Axis -- 4. The Aetiological Axis -- 5. The Pathological Axis -- 6. The Belaboured Economy of Desire -- Conclusion: Making Sense of Self-Harm.
Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative approach to understanding nonsuicidal self-injury; using Cultural Sociology to analyse it more as a practice than an illness and exploring it as a powerful cultural idiom of personal distress and social estrangement that is peculiarly resonant with the symbolic life of late-modern society.
Human body—Social aspects.
Clinical psychology.
Psychology, Pathological.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Sociology of the Body.
Clinical Psychology.
Psychopathology.
Gender Studies.
Anthropology.
Sociology, general.