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Acknowledgements; Note on Quotations; Transcription Key; Contents; 1: Introduction: Constructing and Situating an Embodied, Sociological Account of Self-Injury; Context and Identity; Measuring and Naming Self-Injury; Clinical Boundary Setting: Medicalization, De-medicalization and Re-medicalisation; Bodies, Embodiment and Self-Injury; Authentic Bodies, Authentic Selves in the Twenty-First Century; Narrating Self-Injury: Notes on Methods; Overview of Book; References; 2: The Injury and the Wound: Facing the Corporeality of Self-Injury; Introduction: Facing the Self-Injured Body.
Beginning to Explore the Self-Injured Body Narrating the First Time; Stories of Discovery; Before the First Time: The Primordial Origins of Self-Injury; Authenticating the First Time; Are Younger People Engaging in Less Authentic Self-Injury?; How Did It Feel? Narrating the Sensate Self-ƯInjured Body; Pain, Culture and Bodies; Pain, or Pleasure?; Tracing the Physical/Emotional Boundaries of Pain; The Absence of Pain; Constructing the Self-Injured Body; References; 3: A Critical View on Emotions and Self-Injury; On the Centrality of Emotions; Emotions in the Clinic.
The Clinic, and the Clinical, in Everyday Emotional Life Release and Control: Embodied Emotions; Controlled Release; Being in Control, and Out of Control; Expression and Invalidation: Turning Away from Emotion; Self-Injury as Emotional Expression; Emotional Repression: The Role of Interpersonal Emotional Cultures; Emotional Invalidation; Emotion Work: Emotions and Social Life; What Is an Appropriate Emotion? On Feeling Rules in Family Life; Working on Emotions; Emotion Work as Narrative Resource; Authenticity, Emotions and Bodies; References.
4: Visibility, Help-Seeking and Attention-Seeking Visibility and Self-Injury: The Meaning of Scars and Wounds; Visibility in the Clinic; Stigmatised and Symbolic Bodies; Tales of Seeking Help; Avoiding Help: Self-Care of Self-Injury Wounds; Receiving Help: Help that Is Not 'Sought'; Seeking Help: Taking Responsibility, Suffering the Consequences; It Could Be Otherwise: Seeking Help and Receiving Care; Tales of Seeking Attention; Self-Injury Is Never About Attention-Seeking: We Hide it; Accepting the Charge; The Attention Seeking 'Other'; Subverting the Charge.
Navigating the Visibility of Self-Injury References; 5: Self-Injury, Biomedicine and Boundaries; Introduction: Medical Dominance and Biomedical Resistance; Medical Dominance; Biomedical Resistance; Medicine and Self-Injury in Historical Context; The Medicalisation of Self-Injury?; A Historical Perspective; Encroaching Medicalization?; The De-medicalization of Self-Injury; Mental Illness and Self-Injury: 'Real' Self-Injury and the DSM-5; Making Up the Non-suicidal Self-Injurer; Practices and Bodies in the DSM-5 Criteria for NSSI; Addiction to Self-Injury.
Beginning to Explore the Self-Injured Body Narrating the First Time; Stories of Discovery; Before the First Time: The Primordial Origins of Self-Injury; Authenticating the First Time; Are Younger People Engaging in Less Authentic Self-Injury?; How Did It Feel? Narrating the Sensate Self-ƯInjured Body; Pain, Culture and Bodies; Pain, or Pleasure?; Tracing the Physical/Emotional Boundaries of Pain; The Absence of Pain; Constructing the Self-Injured Body; References; 3: A Critical View on Emotions and Self-Injury; On the Centrality of Emotions; Emotions in the Clinic.
The Clinic, and the Clinical, in Everyday Emotional Life Release and Control: Embodied Emotions; Controlled Release; Being in Control, and Out of Control; Expression and Invalidation: Turning Away from Emotion; Self-Injury as Emotional Expression; Emotional Repression: The Role of Interpersonal Emotional Cultures; Emotional Invalidation; Emotion Work: Emotions and Social Life; What Is an Appropriate Emotion? On Feeling Rules in Family Life; Working on Emotions; Emotion Work as Narrative Resource; Authenticity, Emotions and Bodies; References.
4: Visibility, Help-Seeking and Attention-Seeking Visibility and Self-Injury: The Meaning of Scars and Wounds; Visibility in the Clinic; Stigmatised and Symbolic Bodies; Tales of Seeking Help; Avoiding Help: Self-Care of Self-Injury Wounds; Receiving Help: Help that Is Not 'Sought'; Seeking Help: Taking Responsibility, Suffering the Consequences; It Could Be Otherwise: Seeking Help and Receiving Care; Tales of Seeking Attention; Self-Injury Is Never About Attention-Seeking: We Hide it; Accepting the Charge; The Attention Seeking 'Other'; Subverting the Charge.
Navigating the Visibility of Self-Injury References; 5: Self-Injury, Biomedicine and Boundaries; Introduction: Medical Dominance and Biomedical Resistance; Medical Dominance; Biomedical Resistance; Medicine and Self-Injury in Historical Context; The Medicalisation of Self-Injury?; A Historical Perspective; Encroaching Medicalization?; The De-medicalization of Self-Injury; Mental Illness and Self-Injury: 'Real' Self-Injury and the DSM-5; Making Up the Non-suicidal Self-Injurer; Practices and Bodies in the DSM-5 Criteria for NSSI; Addiction to Self-Injury.