Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good (Resources for Changing Lives)

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If you have ever purposely injured yourself, it may seem normal, even right. But if you haven't, it seems impossible to understand those who have. After all, don't living creatures avoid pain. Edward T. Welch writes this eye-opening and encouraging booklet assuming that you feel trapped in a cycle of self-injury or that you love someone who does. Welch helps loved ones to understand the self-injurer's world. And if you are the one who feels trapped by this behavior, he lovingly describes a cure that is more attractive than you think.

Self-Mutilation: Theory, Research, and Treatment

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Thorough treatment of a disturbing phenomenon. Provides insight for the broad range of mental health professionals who come in contact with self-destructive behaviors.

Self-Mutilation (Opposing Viewpoints)

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Self-Mutilation and Art Therapy: Violent Creation

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Examines the effect of art therapy interventions with clients who harm their bodies. Argues that using art as intervention supports the self-mutilating person's preference for ritualized symbolic action and their need to create transitional objects.

Skin Game: A Memoir

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Caroline Kettlewell is an intelligent woman with a promising career and a family. She is also a former cutter, and the first person to tell her own story about living with and overcoming the disorder. She grew up in a small town, where her father worked at the local boys' boarding school. As she entered adolescence, the combination of a family where frank discussion was discouraged and life in what seemed like a fishbowl, where she and her sister were practically the only girls the students ever saw, became unbearable for Caroline. She discovered that the only way to find relief from overpowering feelings of self-consciousness, discomfort, and alienation was to physically hurt herself. She began cutting her arms and legs in fifth grade, and continued into her twenties.

Speaking Marks: The stories, poetry, and prose of self-injurers

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Speaking Marks brings together the voices of those living with self-injury, sharing their everyday drama and courage. Learn from poetry and prose the experience of self-injury and the strength to overcome.

Stitched: A Memoir

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Self-mutilation is an addiction that affects millions of people. Not everyone can understand its power and control, but Marissa does. A cutter for more than seven years, she had to hit rock bottom before she could claw her way back up. In this unique autobiography, Marissa takes you into the mind and soul of a self-mutilator through journal entries and narration. She shows you the love and devotion of family and friends. In the end, it is the strength of her own unbroken spirit that ends up saving her.

Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut & Self-Injure

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Self-injury can be a disturbing symptom of a variety of conditions, including eating disorders, anxiety, and depression. Teens who self-injure often cut or burn themselves, but may also engage in other harmful practices. Stopping the Pain helps teens and their counselors discover the root cause of self-injury and develop a program to end this dangerous behavior. The book begins with a series of exercises designed to help teens understand why they self-injure and dispel myths about self-injury. It goes on to help them tackle self-esteem issues, recognize and disarm the triggers that lead to self-injury, communicate about self-injury, cope with difficult emotions, and commit to change. More than 10 percent of teenagers have experimented with self-injury, according to research. This book offers help for any teen caught up in this dangerous habit.

Stranger in My Skin

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Even after years of listening to stories of childhood abuse and sexual assault, reading this intelligent young author's intimate psychological journey took me to a deeper understanding. It was a Being John Malkovich experience, a sensation that made it difficult to put the book down, as though her life continued while I was away and I wanted to be there in case she needed me. It felt that intimate. Any reader of Stranger in My Skin will gain an understanding of the phenomenon of self-injury and experience the shattering of some of its popular myths. The author's incredible tenacity to educate herself, work emotionally, and break her silence with written word, is an impeccable depiction of how survivors describe being drawn to follow their soul's way.

The Language of Injury: Comprehending Self-Mutilation

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This book is intended to be a sourcebook for all those who work with people who self-injure, whether in the health and social services, forensic services or the voluntary sector. The approach recognises self-injury as a behaviour reflecting complex psychosocial difficulties in distressed individuals.The topic of self-mutilation is defined and located within the range of other self-destructive behaviours such as parasuicide. A detailed examination of the origins and functional nature of self-injury forms the basis for the authors' recommendations towards providing services in this area.The issues facing those who work with people who self-injure are examined in detail. The authors have drawn on their experience to formulate a theoretical foundation with practical guidelines for work in various settings, including psychotherapy. The importance of supervision and support for practitioners working in this area is stressed.