Managing Self-Harm: Psychological Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781583917053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str.

Motz, Anna

Opis

Suitable for clinicians, people who self-harm and their families and carers to understand its causes, meaning and treatment, this book explores unconscious meanings for self-harming and the sense in which it is a language of the body.

Spis treści

Motz, Introduction. Part I: Understanding Self-Harm. Motz, Self-Harm as a Sign of Hope. Motz, Jones, The Paradox of Self-Harm. Part II: The Wider Context: Systemic Issues and Self-Harm. Scanlon, Adlam, "Why Do You Treat Me This Way?" Reciprocal Violence and the Mythology of Self-Harm. Norris, Maher, The Trap: Self-Harm and Young People in Foster Care and Residential Settings. Grocutt, Self-Harm and Attachment. Part III: Women, Self-Harm and Treatment Issues. Kleinot, Speaking with the Body. Greenwood, Absences, Transitions and Endings: Threats to Successful Treatment. Lawday, Self-Harm in Women’s Secure Services: Reflections and Strategies for Treatment Design. Grocutt, Self-Harm Cessation in Secure Units. Motz, Conclusion: "If You Prick Us Do We Not Bleed?" The Meaning and Management of Self-Harm.

O autorze

Anna Motz is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with Thames Valley Forensic Mental Health Services. She has particular interest in psychoanalytic approaches to understanding and treating violence and self-harm. She is the Past President of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and the author of The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body (Second Edition, 2008).