Armando R Favazza

Gebundenes Buch

Bodies Under Siege

Self-Mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-Injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry

Beschreibung

Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological, ethnological, social, and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context.

Autor

Armando Favazza, M.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is a fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists and is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780801899652
• ISBN-10: 0801899656
• Artikelnr.: 32973623