This paper attempts to address self-harm from a psychoanalytic perspective in contemporary
clinical practice and their relationship with aggression, impulsiveness, violence, and …

Self-harm is worryingly common in young women, and is often used as a way of easing
emotional suffering. Self-Harm: A Psychotherapeutic Approach explores the issues involved …

The author describes psychotherapeutic treatment with a woman who uses severe forms of
self-harm to express her hope that she can find real understanding and an environment that …

The inability to manage distress would be problematic at any time; but it is especially
problematic when distress is accompanied by (or made up of) feelings of rage, cruelty and …

It appears paradoxical to create a wound to heal one, yet this is the drive so clearly found in
self-harm, in which various, apparently conicting, roles get played out on the surface of the …

This practical and accessible book of case studies takes a new look at self-harm, focusing
particularly on the under-explored area ofhidden'self-harming behaviour. These behaviours …

Through experience-near descriptions of self-cutting gleaned from those who do so, the
subjective experience and the conscious and unconscious meanings and functions of this …

Throughout this book the nature of self-harm has been captured in clinical vignettes,
illustrating how the act itself engages others in what can at times seem a compelling and …

Deliberate self‐harm is a common presenting problem suffered by young people. Several
patients referred to the NHS outpatient clinic where I work have been able to stop harming …

Mind is multi-levelled displaying an eons-long prehistory, while as Freud well knew
civilization is new and frail: in biological evolution Thanatos long antecedes Eros. Complex …