A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

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There are people who deliberately cut their skin, burn themselves, and break their own bones. They do it systematically for many years, and without help they can rarely stop. Many have lived through severe forms of emotional or physical childhood abues. The pain they feel is mute-- their only cry "a bright red scream."

Adolescent Self-Injury: A Comprehensive Guide for Counselors and Health Care Professionals

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With the rise of self-injury in the adolescent population, counselors, psychologists, nurses, and administrators in schools and on college campuses have been challenged to make sense of this often misunderstood and disturbing behavior and to respond appropriately. Having the school and college frontline professional in mind, this book presents a compassionate and comprehensive overview of the latest theory, research, and practice regarding self-injury. It offers practical guidelines on how best to engage and assess self-injuring individuals, and provides concrete strategies for creating effective pathways to further care. Dr. D'Onofrio discusses the socio-cultural, developmental, and psychological factors that may set the stage for the emergence of self-injury, explores the relationship of acute and complex trauma to self-injury, and provides a detailed protocol for assessing self-injuring individuals in educational settings. He also makes recommendations for effectively engaging the families, peers, teachers, and others who may have influence in the care of the self-injuring student, and proposes guidelines for developing institutional response policies and protocols.

Beyond The Razor's Edge: Journey of Healing and Hope Beyond Self Injury

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These stories are of people who completed S.A.F.E. Alternatives program. Hope and healing is offered to all who still suffer with self injury.

Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self (Abnormal Psychology)

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Parents, school officials, friends and even many clinicians are most often horrified first, then mystified, when teenagers or young adults choose to cut themselves, self-inflicting pain, possible infection and permanent scarring. And today self-cutting is increasingly prevalent among youth, especially teen girls and young women, so much so that psychologist Lori Goldfarb Plante calls it an epidemic not unlike the rate of eating disorders for youths today. It is estimated that about 1 in every 100 adolescents self-cuts, some also self-burn. For some among those, cutting can be suicidal. For most, however, it is not an attempt to bring death, but instead to fulfill often unconscious needs, to ease and numb a point in development that can at once seem overwhelming, exciting, terrifying, thrilling, powerful and seemingly powerless. Cutting may be for these teens a means to vent despair and emotional pain, and to draw the attention and caring teenagers so deeply need. In this book featuring the stories of self-cutters that Goldfarb Plante has treated, she explains the rationale from a cutter's point of view, citing the many reasons that can be behind it. The therapist author also explains to use in detail how a cutter and the adults who love him or her can heal the pain and stop self-injury. A parent herself as well as a Stanford professor, Plante says caring adults wanting to help youths stop self-cutting need first to understand the frightening developmental tasks that teens and young adults face - independence, intimacy, and identity establishment among them. In an effort to reach developmental goals, some choose hurtful means to attain them. Readers sit by Plante's side as she talks with girls and young women who have made that choice. But they do recover from this behavior that affects teens and young adults today from across all walks of life.

Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, & Survival

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A darkly compelling story, this memoir examines one woman's secret overwhelming desire to physically hurt herself. Any casual observer of Victoria's life would not have seen that this confident, pretty, and articulate young woman was intensely struggling with the all-encompassing need to injure her body. This powerful account chronicles her stresses and insecurities, as well as the mental anguish that led to her wanting to physically turn on herself. Frequently an unspoken and unacknowledged disease, this psychological ailment affects an often hidden population; Victoria's story explores both the disease and the forces that drive it.

Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry

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Presentation of the author's theory on the acts of self-mutilation, for therapists. Discusses the relationship between the act of self-injury and self-healing.

Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers

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Written by the directors of S.A.F.E. Alternatives, a self-injury treatment program, "Bodily Harm" is an authoritative examination of this alarming syndrome, offering a comprehensive treatment regimen.

By Their Own Young Hand: Deliberate Self-Harm And Suicidal Ideas in Adolescents

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A collection of poems woven together to tell the story of a journey from child abuse and self-injury towards healing. Published for abuse survivors, those who self-injure, healing professionals, and anyone interested in understanding, preventing and healing the various forms of child abuse and self-injury.

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light: A Memoir of Cutting, Healing, and Hope

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Texas teacher Vega's horrific account of her lifetime of self-abuse alternates between an intimate diary of pain and a healing dialogue with her counselor. In piecemeal details of her years growing up the eldest daughter of an ambitious, well-educated disciplinarian father and an efficient caretaker mother, Vega portrays herself as a child so eager to please her exacting parents that she began to punish herself for her perceived (by them, but mainly by herself) shortcomings. She would hit herself until she passed out, and cut or starve herself to cause a punishing pain that allowed a release to anger and frustration she was not allowed to express. Her mother's diabetes, her parents' divorce and abandonment by her father led to mounds of guilt, and Vega's abuse of diet pills put her in the emergency room. By the time she seeks therapy she is in her mid-30s, married and no longer able to control her increasingly dire self-mutilation. Her work is cleanly wrought and raw with emotion, especially the passages that take place during group therapy with several other deeply troubled women. There is much to Vega's story that is left unsaid, though her aim is admirable and true: to share her story so that kindred readers will seek help.