| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies
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| Contents |
Literature and population -- Studying self-injury -- Becoming a self-injurer -- The phenomenology of the cut -- Loners in the social world -- Colleagues in the cyber world -- Self-injury communities -- Self-injury relationships -- The social transformation of self-injury -- Careers in self-injury -- Understanding self-injury |
| Summary |
Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injur |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Self-injurious behavior.
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Social isolation.
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Stress (Psychology)
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Self-mutilation.
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Self-torture.
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Stress (Physiology)
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Social ecology.
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Self-Injurious Behavior -- psychology
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Adaptation, Psychological
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Social Environment
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Social Isolation -- psychology
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Stress, Psychological -- psychology
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Self Mutilation
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Self-Injurious Behavior
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Social Isolation
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Stress, Psychological
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Stress, Physiological
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human ecology.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Stress (Physiology)
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Social ecology
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Self-torture
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Self-mutilation
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Adaptability (Psychology)
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Self-injurious behavior
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Social isolation
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Stress (Psychology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Adler, Peter, 1951-
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| LC no. |
2010053656 |
| ISBN |
9780814705186 |
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0814705189 |
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9780814705414 |
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0814705413 |
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