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.

Product details

• Authors: Armando R. Favazza, Armando R. (Emeritus Professor Favazza
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2011
• EAN: 9780801899652
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9965-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories