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Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self

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Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self - Plante, Lori G
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Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be carefully evaluated, although the majority of cutters are not in fact suicidal. Instead, cutting represents a rapidly spreading method for teens hoping to ease emotional pain and suffering. Bleeding from self-inflicted wounds not only helps to numb the cutter and vent despair, it can also be a dramatic means of communicating, ...

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Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self 2010, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442203945

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Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self 2007, Praeger, New York

ISBN-13: 9780275990626

Hardcover