Making Sense of Self-harm
Author | : Peter Steggals |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-01-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781349565504 |
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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.