Self-Injury
The Prevention Researcher, Volume 7, Number 4, 2000, Item# 74
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[Editor's note: don't miss our more recent issue, "Adolescent Self-Injury," released February 2010.]
Also called self-mutilation and self-inflicted violence, self-injury is the intentional harming of one's own body without suicidal intent. Cutting is the most common form of self-injury, but burning or hitting oneself are also methods. Dr. Armando Favazza, the most prominent researcher on self-injury, estimates the number of sufferers at 750 per 100,000 Americans. Self-injury typically begins in adolescence, and commonly affects teenaged girls. Volume 7(4) of The Prevention Researcher delves into this little known and understood behavior.
Articles in this issue:
Helping Those Who Hurt Themselves
By Tracy Alderman, Ph.D.
Self-Destructive Behavior and Bulimia Nervosa
By Dr. Angela Favaro
Self-Injury or Body Modification?
By Gina Ng
Self-Mutilation
By Karen L. Suyemoto, Ph.D., & Xóchitl Kountz, M.S.
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