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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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• 0 Preface to the Third Edition
• 0 Part I
• 1 Mutilative Beliefs, Attitudes, Practices, and Images
• 2 Self-mutilation in Myths of Creation, Shamanism, and Religion
• 3 Self-injury and Eating Disorders
• 4 Animals and Automutilation
• 0 Part II
• 5 The\Head and Its Parts
• 6 The\Limbs
• 7 The\Skin
• 8 The\Genitals
• 0 Part III
• 9 Understanding Self-injury
• 10 The\Assessment, Psychology, and Biology of Self-injury
• 11 Treatment
• 12 Personal Reflections
• 0 Epilogue
• 0 References
• 0 Index