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The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury
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 Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism,...more
Paperback, 252 pages
Published
August 22nd 2011
by New York University Press
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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 Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of...more
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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 Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of...more
A warning to readers who may be picking this up for fun, this is less of a "book" and more of a very long, albeit well written sociology paper. It can read very very dry if you're not expecting that.
Coming from a psychology background, the sociological treatment of self-injury that this book is based around was, at the least, an exercise in thought for me. I appreciated some of the things that they had to say, despite thier obvious disdain for psychology, medicine, and just about everything els...more
Coming from a psychology background, the sociological treatment of self-injury that this book is based around was, at the least, an exercise in thought for me. I appreciated some of the things that they had to say, despite thier obvious disdain for psychology, medicine, and just about everything els...more
Anecdotal stories on why people hurt themselves. There were a number of reasons stated why people would cut or burn themselves. It seems mostly about internal distress but also because in some cases it feels good.
The idea of self injury makes me queesy, so it was hard to finish this book, but considering the number of people who self-injure (about 2% of the population, according to some estimates), it's something to be more educated about. The authors did a good job exploring the experience itself, the rationales behind it, and the history.
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