The Social Transformation of Self-Injury

This research offers a description and analysis of the relatively hidden practice of self-injury: cutting, burning, branding, and bone breaking. Drawing on over 150 in-depth interviews and tens of thousands of website postings, e-mail communications, and Internet groups, we challenge the psycho-medi...

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Main Authors: Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2022-10-01
Series:Qualitative Sociology Review
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/15262