Making Sense of Self-Harm - The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Informationen zum Autor Peter Steggals is Visiting Researcher in Medical Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. He has previously worked with self-harming prisoners as part of a Forensic Psychology unit in Her Majesty's Prison Service. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Steggals
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137470584
• ISBN: 978-1-137-47058-4
• No. of pages: 251
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Clinical psychology, Abnormal psychology, Sociology, general, Gender studies, gender groups, Psychopathology, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociology of the Body, Human body—Social aspects, Psychology, Pathological, economy;self-injury;sociology;stress