Keep Your Hair On: Understanding Urges to Pick, Pull or Bite - Couverture souple

Mackay, Clare

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472149939 ISBN 13 : 9781472149930

Editeur : Robinson, 2026

Synopsis

Blending science and lived experience, this book offers a compassionate, stigma-busting exploration of body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs) - revealing why they happen, why they bother us, and how understanding them may be the key to healing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Clare Mackay is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Oxford, and has spent over thirty years studying the structure and function of the human brain. In 2023, Clare decided to turn her attention to the disorder that had been with her all along, and 'came out' about her secret shame of living with hair pulling disorder. She has since established a number of new collaborations and research projects, and organised the first UK conference for BFRBs. She is committed to raising awareness, improving our understanding and reducing stigma around compulsions to pick, pull or bite.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Keep Your Hair On combines personal experience with scientific inquiry to explore the misunderstood world of hair pulling, skin picking and nail biting.

These behaviours, known as body-focused repetitive behaviours (BFRBs), are common and can cause a lot of distress, but have been largely neglected by medical science, leaving many to suffer in silence.

Clare Mackay shares her own four-decade struggle with hair pulling, while examining what drives these behaviours and why they can make people feel so bad. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, animal behaviour, dermatology and lived experience, she challenges the stigma and oversimplified assumptions surrounding BFRBs.

Mackay offers insights into why these behaviours develop, why they're so hard to stop, and how shame compounds the struggle. Rather than promoting quick fixes, she encourages understanding over judgement and introduces new avenues for management, including the power of self-compassion. This is not a self-help manual, but it may help - by reframing BFRBs not as signs of personal failure, but as interesting, deeply human behaviours that deserve curiosity, care and connection.

Clare Mackay is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Oxford. In 2023, Clare decided to turn her attention to the disorder that had been with her all along, and 'came out' about her secret shame of living with hair pulling disorder. She is committed to raising awareness, improving our understanding and reducing stigma around compulsions to pick, pull or bite.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Robinson
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472149939
• ISBN 13: 9781472149930
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Robinson; biuro@robinson.pl; ; Lajkonika 34; Bielsko-Bia?a; 43-382; Pologne