Marilee Strong

A Bright Red Scream

Self-mutilation and the language of pain

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Produktbeschreibung

* An extremely moving and comprehensive look at self-mutilation, 'the addiction of the 90s' * Written by an award-winning journalist

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 126mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 180g
• ISBN-13: 9781844082322
• ISBN-10: 1844082326
• Artikelnr.: 21773460

Autorenporträt

Marilee Strong, an award-winning journalist known for her groundbreaking 1993 article on self-mutilation, is the recipient of a Pulitzer Fellowship for her work on childhood victims of war trauma.

Inhaltsangabe

A Bright Red ScreamAcknowledgments
Introduction by Armandao R. Favazza, M.D.
Preface
1. The Walking Wounded
2. Into the Void
3. The Secret Language of Pain: The Psychology of Cutting
4. The Unkindest Cut of All: The Legacy of Childhood Sexual Abuse
5. The Body Keeps Score: The Psychobiology of Trauma
6. The Hunger Within: Eating Disorders, Body Alienation, and
Self-Mutilation
7. A Walk on the Wild Side
8. Beyond the Pain: Hope and Healing from Self-Injury
9. A Safe Place
Notes
Resources
Index