num_pages: 284
description: From back cover: Bodies under Siege is the first comprehensive book on this complex and disturbing behavior (self-mutilation). Favazza contends that all self-mutilation is deeply embedded in the elemental experiences of healing, religion, and social amity--and reveals that clinical self-mutilation is a far more common phenomenon than has previously been acknowledged.
language: English
title: Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry
titlecomplete: Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry
genres: Medicine, Research, Mental Illness, History, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Cultural
ratings_count: 207
publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press