| Edition |
3rd ed. |
| Description |
xv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322 and index. |
| Summary |
Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Armando Favazza's pioneering work identified a wide range of forces, many of them cultural and societal, that compel or impel people to mutilate themselves. This new edition examines the explosive growth in the incidence of self-injurious behaviors and body modification practices.--[book cover]. |
| Contents |
Mutilative beliefs, attitudes, practices, and images -- Self-mutilation in myths of creation, shamanism, and religion -- Self-injury and eating disorders -- Animals and automutilation -- The head and its parts -- The limbs -- The skin -- The genitals -- Understanding self-injury -- The assessment, psychology, and biology of self-injury -- Treatment -- Personal reflections. |
| Subject |
Self-mutilation.
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Cultural psychiatry.
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Psychiatry, Transcultural.
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Self Mutilation -- ethnology.
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Self Mutilation -- therapy.
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Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic.
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Ethnopsychology.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison.
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Cultural psychiatry. (OCoLC)fst00885048
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Psychiatry, Transcultural. (OCoLC)fst01081208
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Self-mutilation. (OCoLC)fst01111786
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Psychiatrie.
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Selbstbeschädigung.
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Kultur.
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Självskadebeteende.
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| ISBN |
9780801899652 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper) |
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0801899656 (hardcover ;) (alk. paper) |
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9780801899669 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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0801899664 (paperback;) (alk. paper) |
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