Cutting
understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
by Steven Levenkron
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Known as the illness of the 1990s, close to two million Americans and possibly more suffer from the psychological disorder of self-mutilation. The most prominent public admission was that of Princess Diana.
Written for the self-mutilator, parents, friends, and therapists, Levenkron unravels step by step the mindset of the self-mutilator, explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors, and, most of all, describes how the self-mutilator can be helped.
Through riveting case studies and conversations with his patients, the profile of the self-mutilator emerges: someone who is typically fearful of people and abandonment, whose attachments are hostile or tenuous at best, who lacks interpersonal trust, and who often can't stay focused in a relationship of any depth.
Cutting tells the reader where to turn for help and offers important skills the self-mutilator must learn - what Levenkron calls the "Attachment-Dependency Trust Axis" - in order to overcome the affliction.
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Cutting: understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
2006, W.W. Norton
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Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
March 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
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Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
April 1998, W. W. Norton & Company
in English
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Cutting: understanding and overcoming self-mutilation
1998, W.W. Norton
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Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
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Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-256) and index.
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"One evening, many years ago, I received a call from a seventeen-year-old patient I was treating for depression and feelings of alienation."
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