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Bodies Under Siege: Self Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and
Psychiatry
by
Armando R. Favazza
University of Missouri, Columbia. Second edition of a presentation of the
author's theory on the acts of self-mutilation, for therapists. Previous
edition 1987. Discusses the relationship between the act of self-injury and
self-healing.
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Sleeveless
by
Joi Brozek
Sleeveless is the darkly humorous and provocative story of Lisha, a sardonic
and very twisted teenager living on Long Island in the late 80s, dealing with
the accidental death of her younger sister after a botched DIY abortion.
Alienated from her peers and a fanatically religious mother, Lisha begins
exploring the creative potential of self-abuse, through what she refers to as
skin design.
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Cut
by
Patricia McCormick
This first novel combines pathos with insight as it describes adolescent girls
being hospitalized for a variety of psychiatric disorders: "The place is called
a residential treatment facility. It is not called a loony bin," states Callie,
the narrator, with characteristic grit. Callie does not speak aloud for most of
the story, but directs her silent commentary chiefly to her therapist. Through
this internalized dialogue, readers become aware of Callie's practice of
cutting herself.
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Crosses
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Shelley Stoehr
Nancy and Katie are best friends with one big thing in common they both cut
themselves, Not by accident, we do it purposely and regularly because physical
pain is comforting, and because now it has become a habit. Crosses was the
first novel for young adults to deal with an increasingly widespread disorder,
and graphically describes the cry for help of many adolescents and how far they
have to fall before they are even noticed.
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Skin Game
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Caroline Kettlewell
Caroline Kettlewell’s autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and
alienation led her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age
twelve into her twenties. Skin Game employs clear language and candid
reflection to grant general readers as well as students an uncensored profile
of a complex and unsettling disorder. "[This] mesmeric memoir examines the
obsession with cutting that is believed to afflict somewhere around two million
Americans, nearly all of them female," Francine Prose noted in Elle.
"[Kettlewell’s] language soars and its intensity deepens whenever she is
recalling the lost joys and the thrilling sensation of sharp steel against her
tender skin."
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
by
Steven Levenkron
Just looking at Katie Roskova, you'd think she had it all: she was pretty,
popular, an A-student at an exclusive private school, and on her way to
becoming a champion figure skater. But there was another Katie--the one she hid
from the world--who was having trouble dealing with the mounting pressures of
her young life. And it was this Katie who, with no other means of expression
available to her, reacted to her overbearing mother, her absent father, her
unforgiving schedule, and her oblivious classmates by turning her self-doubt
into self-hatred. And into self-mutilation.
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