Title Making sense of self-harm : the cultural meaning and social context of non-suicidal self-injury / Peter Steggals.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 242 pages)
Contents	Introduction: The signifying wound -- What is self-harm? -- The problem of good understanding -- The ontological axis -- The aetiological axis -- The pathological axis -- The belaboured economy of desire -- Conclusion: Making sense of self-harm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative examination of nonsuicidal self-injury. In contrast to more common psychiatric or psychological analyses this book uses Cultural Sociology and the conceptual insights of Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias and Ludwig Wittgenstein to map the hidden meanings of self-harm and reveal it more as a kind of practice than an illness; a powerful cultural idiom of personal distress and social estrangement that is peculiarly resonant with the symbolic life of late-modern society. The book explores various texts that talk about self-harm and which have helped shape it as a social phenomenon, from medical discourses to popular media, and further traces its meanings through a number of in-depth interviews with people who self-harm, ultimately grounding an understanding of self-harm in our prevalent psychological and consumer cultures and coming to make sense of a phenomenon that so many have found profoundly disturbed and disturbing."-- Provided by publisher.
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Access	Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL
Subject	Self-injurious behavior.
	Cultural psychiatry.
	Social psychiatry.
	HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
	MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Diseases.
	MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
	MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
	Social & cultural anthropology.
	Abnormal psychology.
	Cultural psychiatry. (OCoLC)fst00885048
	Self-injurious behavior. (OCoLC)fst01111767
	Social psychiatry. (OCoLC)fst01122811
Other Form:	Print version: Steggals, Peter, 1975- Making sense of self-harm 9781137470584 (DLC) 2015021823 (OCoLC)910090999
ISBN	9781137470591 (electronic bk.)
	1137470593 (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	10.1057/9781137470591 doi

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