Psyche on the skin : a history of self-harm
Chaney, Sarah2017
Book
It's a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting and self-harm. But few of us know that it was 150 years ago - with the introduction of institutional asylum psychiatry - that self-mutilation was first described as a category of behaviour, which psychiatrists, and later psychologists and social workers, attempted to understand. With care and focus, this book tells the secret but necessary history of self-harm from the 1860s to the present, showing just how deeply entrenched this practice is in human culture.
Main title:
Psyche on the skin : a history of self-harm / Sarah Chaney.
Author:
Chaney, Sarah, author
Imprint:
London : Reaktion Books, 2017.
Collation:
288 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781780237503 (hbk)
Dewey class:
616.8582
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2467244