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Tender Cut Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury

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ISBN-10: 0814705073

ISBN-13: 9780814705070

Edition: 2011

Authors: Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler

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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 Cutargues 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…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/22/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Patricia A. Adler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Peter Adler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver. They are the co-authors and co-editors of numerous books, including Peer Power, Paradise Laborers, and Constructions of Deviance . Both Adlers collaboratively received the 2010 George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Peter Adler (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. His research interests include social psychology, drugs and society, and sociology of work, sport, and leisure. His first book, MOMENTUM, was published in 1981 by Sage. Peter has been honored with the University Lecturer Award and as the Outstanding Scholar/Teacher at the University of Denver, as well as being named by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (SSSI) as Mentor of the Year in 2005.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
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
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors