The tender cut
Subtitle: inside the hidden world of self-injury
By: Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler
Contributors: Adler, Peter, 1951-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780814705063; 9780814705070; 9780814705186
Subjects: Psychological Stress; Psychology; Adaptability (Psychology); Social isolation; Stress (Psychology); Psychological Adaptation; Self-Injurious Behavior; Social Isolation; Social Environment; Self-injurious behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literature and population; title: Studying self-injury; title: Becoming a self-injurer; title: The phenomenology of the cut; title: Loners in the social world; title: Colleagues in the cyber world; title: Self-injury communities; title: Self-injury relationships; title: The social transformation of self-injury; title: Careers in self-injury; title: Understanding self-injury.