Bodies under siege : self-mutilation, nonsuicidal self-injury, and body modification in culture and psychiatry / Armando Favazza.

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A quarter century after it was first published, Bodies under Siege remains the classic, authoritative book on self-mutilation. Now in its third edition, this invaluable work is updated throughout with findings from hundreds of new studies, discussions of new models of self-injury, an assessment of the S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) program, and the Bill of Rights for People Who Self-harm.

Armando Favazza's pioneering work identified a wide range of forces, many of them cultural and societal, that compel or impel people to mutilate themselves. This new edition examines the explosive growth in the incidence of self-injurious behaviors and body modification practices. 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.

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• Preface to the Third Edition (p. ix)
• Part I Mutilative Beliefs, Religion, Eating, and Ethology (p. 1)
• 1 Mutilative Beliefs, Attitudes, Practices, and Images (p. 3)
• 2 Self-mutilation in Myths of Creation, Shamanism, and Religion (p. 20)
• 3 Self-injury and Eating Disorders (p. 43)
• 4 Animals and Automutilation (p. 57)
• Part II Mutilation and Self-Injury of Body Parts: Cultural and Clinical Cases (p. 71)
• 5 The Head and Its Parts (p. 73)
• 6 The Limbs (p. 111)
• 7 The Skin (p. 129)
• 8 The Genitals (p. 157)
• Part III Insight and Treatment (p. 195)
• 9 Understanding Self-injury (p. 197)
• 10 The Assessment, Psychology, and Biology of Self-injury (p. 221)
• 11 Treatment (p. 244)
• 12 Personal Reflections (p. 272)
• Epilogue. Body Play: My Journey (p. 281)
• References (p. 297)
• Index (p. 323)