The Tender Cut : : Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury / / Peter Adler, Patricia A. Adler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Adler, Patricia A.,; Adler, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814705414; 9783110706444
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Peter Adler, Patricia A. Adler.

Cutting, 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 1990s 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.