Bodies Under Siege - Self Mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self Injury, Body Modification in

Informationen zum Autor Armando Favazza, M.D., is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is a fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists and is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. Klappentext Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological, ethnological, social, and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context. Zusammenfassung Favazza critically assesses new and significant biological! ethnological! social! and psychological findings regarding self-injury; presents current understandings of self-injurious acts from cultural and clinical perspectives; and places self-mutilation in historical and contemporary context.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Armando Favazza, Armando R Favazza, Armando R. Favazza, Armando R. (Emeritus Professor Favazza
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.06.2011
• EAN: 9780801899669
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9966-9
• Seiten: 352
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Theoretische Psychologie; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Sozialpsychologie, Psychiatrie