Women and Self Harm: Understanding, Coping and Healing from Self-Mutilation

✍ Scribed by Gerrilyn Smith, Dee Cox, Jacqui Saradjian

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 175
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Presents the personal testimonies of a broad range of women who self-multilate, explores the causes and effects of self-harming behavior, and offers strategies for understanding, overcoming, and healing from self-mutilation. Softcover. DLC: Self--mutilation.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 9
What is Self-Harm and Who Does It?......Page 14
Explanations for Self-Harm......Page 34
Getting Access to Services......Page 53
Conventional Treatments......Page 65
Self-Help......Page 85
Disrupting Self-Harm Patterns......Page 98
Family and Friends......Page 119
Afterword......Page 136
Notes......Page 145
Drugs Commonly Prescribed to Women Who Self-Harm......Page 151
Further Reading......Page 155
Resources......Page 159
Index......Page 169

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