Resources Directly Related to Self-Injury
Self-Injury:
Psychotherapy with People Who Engage in Self-Inflicted Violence, by Robin
Connors, Ph.D. (Jason
Aronson,
The Scarred Soul:
Understanding and Ending Self-Inflicted Violence, by Tracy Alderman, Ph.D. (New
Harbinger Publications, 1997). Available from Sidran ]
Understanding
Self-Injury: A Workbook for Adults, by Kristy Trautmann
and Robin Connors (Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, 1994).Available from Sidran ]
between the lines: a documentary about cutting, Black & white film, 16mm, 21 minutes Fanlight Productions, 47 Halifax St., Boston, MA 02130-4327; 800-937-4113; fanlight@fanlight.com
“The Voice on the Skin: Self-Mutilation
and Merleau-Ponty’s Theory of Language,” by Janice McLane, Ph.D.
Hypatia, vol.11, no. 4 (Fall1996), pp. 107-18. Available from
Indiana University Press.
Women
Living with Self-Injury, by Jane Wegscheider
Hyman (Temple University Press, 1999).
General Resources
Understanding and Responding to People in the Criminal Justice System Who Live with Self-Inflicted Violence
By Ruta Mazelis
“On Being Invisible in the Mental Health System,” by Ann
Jennings, Ph.D., initially published in the Journal
of Mental Health Administration, 1994, vol. 21, pp. 374-87.
Beyond Bedlam:
Contemporary Women Psychiatric Survivors Speak Out, Edited
by Jeanine Grobe.
(Third Side Press, 2250 W. Farragut,
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence–From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, by Judith Herman, M.D. (Running Press, 1992).
Beyond Conflict: From
Self-help and Psychotherapy to Peacemaking, by Peter R. Breggin,
M.D. (St. Martin’s
Press, NY, 1992).