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The Tender Cut: Inside The Hidden World Of Selfinjury
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Choice'S Outstanding Academic Title List For 20132013 Honorable Mention For The Distinguished Book Award Presented By The Midwest Sociological Societyhonorable Mention For The Charles H. Cooley Award For Outstanding Book From The Society For The Study Of Symbolic Interactionilluminates The Misunderstood Meaning Of Selfinjury In The 21St Centurycutting, Burning, Branding, And Bonebreaking Are All Types Of Selfinjury, Or The Deliberate, Nonsuicidal Destruction Of Ones 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 Selfinjury Is Often A Coping Mechanism, A Form Of Teenage Angst, An Expression Of Group Membership, And A Type Of Rebellion, Converting Unbearable Emotional Pain Into Manageable Physical Pain.Based On The Largest, Qualitative, Nonclinical Population Of Selfinjurers Ever Gathered, Noted Ethnographers Patricia And Peter Adler Draw On 150 Interviews With Selfinjurers From All Over The World, Along With 30,00040,000 Internet Posts In Chat Rooms And Communiqus. Their 10Year Longitudinal Research Follows The Practice Of Selfinjury From Its Early Days When People Engaged In It Alone And Did Not Know Others, To The Present, Where A Subculture Has Formed Via Cyberspace That Shares Similar Norms, Values, Lore, Vocabulary, And Interests. An Important Portrait Of A Troubling Behavior, The Tender Cut Illuminates The Meaning Of Selfinjury In The 21St Century, Its Effects On Current And Former Users, And Its Future As A Practice For Selfdiscovery Or A Cry For Help.
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