Skin Game
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: July 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780312200114
Subjects: Biography: general; Coping with personal problems; Specific Groups - Special Needs; Psychology; Psychoneuroses; Women; Biography / Autobiography; Self-mutilation; Biography/Autobiography; Psychopathology - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Compulsive Behavior; Virginia; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Biography; Kettlewell, Caroline; Patients
First sentence: One February day in the seventh grade, I was apprehended in the girls' bathroom at school, trying to cut my arm with my Swiss Army knife.
Description: A memoir in which the author, a former "cutter," discusses the reasons why she began cutting herself as an adolescent, and shares the story of how she was finally able to overcome the affliction.