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Making Sense of Self-harm

The Cultural Meaning and Social Context of Nonsuicidal Self-injury

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  • © 2015

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  1. Peter Steggals

    1. Newcastle University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 1-16

  3. What is Self-harm?

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 17-51

  4. The Problem of Good Understanding

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 52-84

  5. The Ontological Axis

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 85-121

  6. The Aetiological Axis

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 122-157

  7. The Pathological Axis

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 158-192

  8. The Belaboured Economy of Desire

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 193-213

  9. Conclusion

    • Peter Steggals
    Pages 214-217

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 219-242
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About this book

Making Sense of Self-Harm provides an alternative approach to understanding nonsuicidal self-injury; using Cultural Sociology to analyse it more as a practice than an illness and exploring it as a powerful cultural idiom of personal distress and social estrangement that is peculiarly resonant with the symbolic life of late-modern society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Newcastle University, UK

    Peter Steggals

About the author

Peter Steggals is Visiting Researcher in Medical Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. He has previously worked with self-harming prisoners as part of a Forensic Psychology unit in Her Majesty's Prison Service.

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