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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Steggals
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137470584
• ISBN: 978-1-137-47058-4
• Pagine: 251
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia applicata; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia applicata; 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