The Tender Cut : Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury / Peter Adler, Patricia A. Adler.
2011
RC569.5.S48 A35 2011
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The Tender Cut : Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury / Peter Adler, Patricia A. Adler.
Author
Adler, Patricia A., author.
ISBN
9780814705414
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright
©2011
Language
English
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In English.
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1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814705414.001.0001 doi
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RC569.5.S48 A35 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.196/8582
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-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.
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Adler, Peter, author.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Literature and Population
3 Studying Self-Injury
4 Becoming a Self-Injurer
5 The Phenomenology of the Cut
6 Loners in the Social World
7 Colleagues in the Cyber World
8 Self-Injury Communities
9 Self-Injury Relationships
10 The Social Transformation of Self-Injury
11 Careers in Self-Injury
12 Understanding Self-Injury
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Literature and Population
3 Studying Self-Injury
4 Becoming a Self-Injurer
5 The Phenomenology of the Cut
6 Loners in the Social World
7 Colleagues in the Cyber World
8 Self-Injury Communities
9 Self-Injury Relationships
10 The Social Transformation of Self-Injury
11 Careers in Self-Injury
12 Understanding Self-Injury
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors