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Making Sense of Self-Harm provides a much needed alternative examination of a potent and increasingly prevalent pattern of distress and estrangement that has come to haunt contemporary society. By exploring nonsuicidal self-injury through the lens of cultural sociology and the insights of thinkers like Michel Foucault, Norbert Elias and Susan Bordo, the book describes it more as a kind of idiomatic practice in need of understanding than as a medical illness in need of biological explanation. Grounding analysis in compelling interviews with people who self-harm and in multiple cultural representations of the practice from books and magazines to music and movies, Steggals uncovers the history of self-harm, maps its hidden meanings and traces its peculiar resonance with the symbolic life of late-modern society, eventually coming to make sense of a phenomenon that so many find profoundly disturbed and disturbing
Author(s): Steggals P
Publication type: Authored Book
Publication status: Published
Edition: 1st
Year: 2015
Number of Pages: 242
Print publication date: 05/10/2015
Online publication date: 05/10/2015
Acceptance date: 02/06/2014
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place Published: Basingstoke, UK
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781137470584
