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Bodies under siege : self-mutilation, nonsuicidal self-injury, and body modification in culture and psychiatry / Armando Favazza.
- Title
- Bodies under siege : self-mutilation, nonsuicidal self-injury, and body modification in culture and psychiatry / Armando Favazza.
- Author
- Favazza, Armando R.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xv, 333 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- 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].
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-322 and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Mutilative beliefs, attitudes, practices, and images -- Self-mutilation in myths of creation, shamanism, and religion -- Self-mutilation and eating disorders -- Animals and automutilation -- The head and its parts -- The limbs -- The skin -- The genitals -- Understanding self-mutilation and nonsuicidal self-injury : culturally sanctioned practices and pathological behavior -- The assessment, psychology, and biology of self-injury -- Treatment -- Personal reflections.
- ISBN
- 9780801899652 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0801899656 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780801899669 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0801899664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010025284
- OCLC
- 643443142
- SCSB-12825647
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library