Making Sense of Self-harm: The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury

Steggals, Peter

Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative approach to understanding nonsuicidal self-injury; using Cultural Sociology to analyse it more as a practice than an illness and exploring it as a powerful cultural idiom of personal distress and social estrangement that is peculiarly resonant with the symbolic life of late-modern society.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-10-05

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137470584

DOI: 10.1057/9781137470591

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 242