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Hurting from the Inside Out: Understanding Self-Injury

By Janis Whitlock and Penelope Hasking — 2017

It's a paradox: Some students habitually hurt themselves physically to feel better emotionally. When educators understand more, they can help more.

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Cutting Down: A CBT Workbook for Treating Young People Who Self-harm

A quarter of adolescents engage in some form of self-harm and even experienced therapists can find working with these young people difficult.

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Lucy Taylor, Mima Simic, Ulrike Schmidt
2015
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Can’t You Hear Them?

The experience of ‘hearing voices,’ once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild.

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Simon McCarthy-Jones
2017
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Hearing Voices, Living Fully

Despite escalating paranoia, an initial diagnosis of Schizophreniform Disorder and taking medication with debilitating side effects, Claire learned to face her demons and manage her condition without the need for long-term medication.

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Claire Bien
2016
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When Your Child Is Cutting: A Parent’s Guide to Helping Children Overcome Self-Injury

This book offers you information and advice for dealing with a child who is hurting him or herself. Learn why self-injury happens, how to identify it, and how to address this sensitive topic with calm and confidence.

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Sony Khemlani-Patel, Merry McVey-Noble, Fugen Neziroglu
2006
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The Scarred Soul: Understanding and Ending Self-Inflicted Violence

It happens whenever a person deliberately and repeatedly cuts or burn themselves, or purposefully hurts themselves in some other way. It's disturbing and dangerous behavior, and so hard to stop that many researchers consider it a kind of addiction.

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Tracy Alderman
1997
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Cover Up: Understanding Self-Harm

Cover Up: Understanding Self-Harm is a guide for parents, teachers, therapists or anyone who lives with, supports or provides therapy for people who self-harm. This book blows away the stigma and myths that are attached to this distressing behavior.

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Joan Freeman
2010
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Healing Self-Injury: A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury.

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Janis Whitlock, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson
2019
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Psyche on the Skin: A History of Self-Harm

It’s a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting and self-harm.

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Sarah Chaney
2019
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Understanding and Responding to Self-Harm—The One Stop Guide: Practical Advice for Anybody Affected by Self-Harm

Self-harm is increasingly prevalent in our society. But few of us understand why, or know what to do to help ourselves, friends or family in such situations. It can be very isolating.

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Allan House
2019
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Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self Injure

If you’re cutting or hurting yourself you’re not alone. Thousands of teens across the country think that hurting themselves is the only way they can feel better, even though they continue to feel alone and out of control. There are a lot of reasons why teens hurt themselves.

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Lawrence Shapiro
2008
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