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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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Many words of wisdom have been shared and shared again until the original source is no longer identifiable. While some famous quotes are often misattributed to well-known figures, incorrectly ascribed to ancient sources, or credited to authors who were merely passing on the phrases from others, these ideas still inspire and encourage us.

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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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Skin Game

Caroline Kettlewell's autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties.

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Caroline Kettlewell
2000
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Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program For Self-Injurers

Self-injury is one of our society's fastest-growing and most disturbing epidemics. Bodily Harm is the most authoritative examination of this alarming syndrome and the first to offer a comprehensive treatment regimen. Written by the directors of S.A.F.E.

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Jennifer Kingsonbloom
1999
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Inside a Cutter’s Mind: Understanding and Helping Those Who Self-Injure

Cutting is a practice that has crossed age and gender lines. It's not just depressed teens who inflict injury on themselves--it can be anyone dealing with overwhelming feelings. This book explores the complex issue of cutting without offering any pat or simple fixes.

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Jerusha Clark
2007
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Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

Nearly a decade ago, Cutting boldly addressed a traumatic psychological disorder now affecting as many as two million Americans and one in fifty adolescents.

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Steven Levenkron
1998
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Bleeding to Ease the Pain: Cutting, Self-Injury, and the Adolescent Search for Self

Cutting and other forms of self-injury are often cries for help, pleas for someone to notice that the pain is too much to bear. As Plante discusses here, the threat of suicide must always be carefully evaluated, although the majority of cutters are not in fact suicidal.

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Lori G. Plante
2010
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Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry

Armando Favazza’s pioneering work identified a wide range of forces, many of them cultural and societal, that compel or impel people to mutilate themselves. This new edition examines the explosive growth in the incidence of self-injurious behaviors and body modification practices.

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Armando Favazza
2011
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A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

Self-mutilation is a behavior so shocking that it is almost never discussed. Yet estimates are that upwards of eight million Americans are chronic self-injurers. They are people who use knives, razor blades, or broken glass to cut themselves.

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Marilee Strong
1999
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