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Making sense of self-harm

the cultural meaning and social context of nonsuicidal self-injury

Peter Steggals

Abstract

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.

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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2015

Pages: 242

DOI: 10.1057/9781137470591

ISBN (hardback): 978-1-137-47058-4

ISBN (digital): 978-1-137-47059-1

Full citation:

Steggals Peter (2015) Making sense of self-harm: the cultural meaning and social context of nonsuicidal self-injury. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.