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Responses to Self Harm: An Historical Analysis of Medical, Religious, Military
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Responses to Self Harm: An Historical Analysis of Medical, Religious, Military and Psychological Perspectives Paperback - 2015

by Leigh Dale


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Self harm is generally regarded as a modern epidemic, associated especially with young women. But references to self harm are found in the poetry of ancient Rome, the drama of ancient Greece and early Christian texts, including the Bible. Studied by criminologists, doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and sociologists, the actions of those who harm themselves are often alienating and bewildering. This book provides a historical and conceptual roadmap for understanding self harm across a range of times and places: in modern high schools and in modern warfare; in traditional religious practices and in avant-garde performance art. Describing the diversity of self harm as well as responses to it, this book challenges the understanding of it as a single behavior associated with a specific age group, gender or cultural identity.

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  • Title Responses to Self Harm: An Historical Analysis of Medical, Religious, Military and Psychological Perspectives
  • Author Leigh Dale
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Date 2015
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780786496754 / 0786496754
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Psychological
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Self-mutilation - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015008758
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.27

About the author

Leigh Dale is professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and editor of the journal Australian Literary Studies and has published on Australian and postcolonial literatures.
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