Research Catalog

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

• Self-mutilation
• Cultural psychiatry
• Psychiatry, Transcultural
• Self Mutilation > ethnology
• Self Mutilation > therapy
• Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Ethnopsychology
• Self-Injurious Behavior
• Self Mutilation

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