Bleeding to Ease the Pain
Subtitle: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self (Abnormal Psychology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: March 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780275990626
Subjects: Coping with personal problems; Popular psychology; Psychology; Developmental - Adolescent; Psychopathology - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; General; Self-mutilation in adolescence
Description: "In this book, Plante features the stories of self-injurers and helps the reader understand the meaning of the injuries and how to help teens stop. This author, who is a psychologist, a parent, and a Stanford University Medical School faculty member, explains in clear detail how cutters and the adults who love them can heal the pain and stop self-injury. She describes the frightening developmental tasks that teenagers and young adults face, and how the central challenges of the three I's (Independence, Intimacy, and Identity) compel them to cope through self-destructive acts. Readers will feel as if they are in the therapy room with Plante and these struggling teenagers as they seek to overcome their internal pain and that desperate need to cut and self-injure."--Jacket.