Cutting Understanding and Overcoming Self Mutilation

Name: Cutting Understanding and Overcoming Self Mutilation
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ISBN: 9780393319385

ISBN-10: 0393319385

ISBN-13: 9780393319385

Edition: 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Steven Levenkron

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A seminal work on treating self-mutilation, revised and updated with illuminating case studies and newly available drugs and resources. Nearly a decade ago, Cutting boldly addressed a traumatic psychological disorder affecting as many as two million Americans. More than that, it revealed self-mutilation as a comprehendible, treatable disorder, no longer to be evaded by the public and neglected by professionals. Using copious examples from his practice, Steven Levenkron traces the factors that predispose a personality to self-mutilation: genetics, family experience, childhood trauma, and parental behavior. Written for sufferers, parents, friends, and therapists, Cutting explains why the…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.19" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Steven Levenkron is a psychotherapist in private practice & the best-selling author of "The Best Little Girl in the World". He lives in New York.



Preface


Acknowledgments



What Is Self-Mutilation?



The Phenomenon of a Self-Destructive Act



Who Is the Self-Mutilator?



The Reactions of Others



How the Disorder Takes Shape



How and Why the Disorder Deepens



Attachment Patterns



The Benefits of Self-Wounding



The Value of Pain in Our Culture



The Family System



Incest and Other Childhood Abuse: Fusing Pain with Security



A Perspective on Change



Reaching Out to Reach In



Who Can Be the Helpers?



Bumps Along the Road



Caught Between Symptom and Attachment



Moving Backwards to Recovery



Achieving Genuine Communication with Others



Analyzing and Confronting the Past


Epilogue


Recommended Readings on Self-Mutilation


Other Resources


Index