Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation - Couverture rigide

Levenkron, Steven

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393027414 ISBN 13 : 9780393027419

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1998

Synopsis

The author of the seminal and groundbreaking Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa now explains the phenomenon of self-mutilation. Known as the illness of the 1990s, it is estimated that close to two million Americans and possibly more suffer from the psychological disorder of self-mutilation. The most prominent public admission was that of Princess Diana. Like anorexia and bulimia, self-mutilation is predominantly a women's disorder since women tend to direct their anger inward. Steven Levenkron identifies the self-mutilator as someone who is fearful of people and abandonment, whose attachments are hostile or tenuous at best, who lacks interpersonal trust, and who often can't stay focused in a relationship of any depth. In the same way that anorexia and bulimia manifested in behaviors that seemed incomprehensible to the public, the bizarre behaviors of the self-mutilator are unraveled for the reader, step by step, in this valuable book. Cutting tells the reader where to turn for help and offers important skills the self-mutilator must learn in order to deal with the affliction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Steven Levenkron is a psychotherapist and the author of seven previous books, including Cutting and The Anatomy of Anorexia. He lives and practices in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0393027414
• ISBN 13: 9780393027419
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible