Psyche on the skin : a history of self-harm

Chaney, Sarah2019

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It's a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting and self-harm. But few of us know that it was 150 years ago - with the introduction of institutional asylum psychiatry - that self-mutilation was first described as a category of behaviour, which psychiatrists, and later psychologists and social workers, attempted to understand. With care and focus, this book tells the secret but necessary history of self-harm from the 1860s to the present, showing just how deeply entrenched this practice is in human culture.