04172nam 22007455 450 991078145880332120230126202531.00-8147-0541-310.18574/9780814705414(CKB)2550000000041082(EBL)865309(OCoLC)744354029(SSID)ssj0000530322(PQKBManifestationID)11326454(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000530322(PQKBWorkID)10561865(PQKB)11011691(MiAaPQ)EBC865309(MdBmJHUP)muse4895(DE-B1597)548452(DE-B1597)9780814705414(EXLCZ)99255000000004108220200723h20112011 fg 0engurnn#---|un|utxtccrThe Tender Cut Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury /Patricia A. Adler, Peter AdlerNew York, NY :New York University Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (265 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-0507-3 0-8147-0506-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1 Introduction --2 Literature and Population --3 Studying Self-Injury --4 Becoming a Self-Injurer --5 The Phenomenology of the Cut --6 Loners in the Social World --7 Colleagues in the Cyber World --8 Self-Injury Communities --9 Self-Injury Relationships --10 The Social Transformation of Self-Injury --11 Careers in Self-Injury --12 Understanding Self-Injury --Notes --References --Index --About the AuthorsCutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990's and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. Based on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.Stress, PsychologicalpsychologySocial IsolationpsychologySocial EnvironmentAdaptation, PsychologicalSelf-Injurious BehaviorpsychologyStress (Psychology)Social isolationAdaptability (Psychology)Self-injurious behaviorStress, Psychologicalpsychology.Social Isolationpsychology.Social Environment.Adaptation, Psychological.Self-Injurious Behaviorpsychology.Stress (Psychology)Social isolation.Adaptability (Psychology)Self-injurious behavior.362.1968582Adler Patricia A.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut618312Adler Peterauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910781458803321The Tender Cut3702989UNINA