Responses to Self Harm

An Historical Analysis of Medical, Religious, Military and Psychological Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:381 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786496754

Utforska kategorier

Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceSourcesIntroductionChapter 1. Classical and Christian Stories of Self HarmEthnographies of the GalliMythographies of AttisPsychoanalysis and the Uses of AttisSelf Harm and Religious ExpressionModern Medicine and the Uses of MythSpectre and Spectacle: Self Harm as PerformanceChapter 2. Delicate Structures? Case Studies of Self HarmSelf Enucleation and Ingestion of NeedlesMalingering Versus Mental Illness: Respecting Patients?The Deserving PatientThe Undeserving PatientDiagnosing and Disclosing Self Harm: DermatologyDermatology and the “mysterious mental element”Responding to Self HarmDemonizing Self Harm: Beverley Allitt and AfterChapter 3. Self Harm as Malingering: Criminology and Military MedicineMilitant Medicine: Self Harm as CrimeSelf Harm in PrisonDoctors Resisting?The First World WarThe Secret BattleConclusionsChapter 4. The Alien Self: Psychiatry and PsychologyCriminology Finds the PsychePierre JanetThe Unknown Ancestor: DabrowskiFreud and His Followers: Brunswick, Lewis and GreenacreKarl Menninger and Man Against HimselfFreud in Practice: Case ReportsTheorizing Self Harm: Otto FenichelChallenging Freud: Horney on Feminine MasochismReviving Feminine MasochismFerenczi and His FollowersReflections: Reading Self HarmThe Impact of Self HarmBehaviorismSpeculations on Siblings, Speech and Controlled Re-EnactmentThe Language of Self Harm: Speech and Controlled Re-EnactmentResearching Self HarmChapter NotesBibliographyIndex