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Psyche on the skin : a history of self-harm / Sarah Chaney.
Publisher: London, UK : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781780237503
- 1780237502
- History of self-harm
- RC 552 .S4 C43 2017
Contents:
1. Pre-History of Self-Harm: From Ancient Castration to Medicinal Bloodletting --
2. Morbid Impulse and Moral Insanity: The Emergence of Self-mutilation in Late Nineteenth-century Psychiatry --
3. Sexual Self-Mutilation: Masturbation, Masculinity and Self-control in Late Victorian Britain --
4. Motiveless Malingerers: Multiple Personality, Attention-seeking and Hysteria around 1900 --
5. Focal Suicide: Hypersexuality, Masochism and the Death Instinct in Psychoanalysis --
6. Delicate Self-Cutting: Schizophrenia and the 'Borderline' in Post-war North America --
7. Trigger Happy: Culture, Contagion and Trauma in the Internet Age --
Conclusion : Three Narratives of Bodily Harm.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | RC 552 .S4 C43 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | c20049953 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-303) and index.
1. Pre-History of Self-Harm: From Ancient Castration to Medicinal Bloodletting --
2. Morbid Impulse and Moral Insanity: The Emergence of Self-mutilation in Late Nineteenth-century Psychiatry --
3. Sexual Self-Mutilation: Masturbation, Masculinity and Self-control in Late Victorian Britain --
4. Motiveless Malingerers: Multiple Personality, Attention-seeking and Hysteria around 1900 --
5. Focal Suicide: Hypersexuality, Masochism and the Death Instinct in Psychoanalysis --
6. Delicate Self-Cutting: Schizophrenia and the 'Borderline' in Post-war North America --
7. Trigger Happy: Culture, Contagion and Trauma in the Internet Age --
Conclusion : Three Narratives of Bodily Harm.
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