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Making Sense of Self-harm

The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury
By:Peter Steggals
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781349565504
eText ISBN:9781137470591
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative approach to understanding nonsuicidal self-injury; using Cultural Sociology to analyse it more as a practice than an illness and exploring it as a powerful cultural idiom of personal distress and social estrangement that is peculiarly resonant with the symbolic life of late-modern society.