Managing Self-Harm: Psychological Perspectives

Editor : Anna Motz

Managing Self-Harm: Psychological Perspectives

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2009
  • Cover : Paperback
  • Pages : 246
  • Category :
    Individual Psychotherapy
  • Catalogue No : 26935
  • ISBN 13 : 9781583917053
  • ISBN 10 : 1583917055
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Self-harm often arises at moments of despair, or intensity and its reasons are not necessarily available to the conscious mind. "Managing Self Harm" explores unconscious meanings for self-harming and the sense in which it is a language of the body, and is designed to help clinicians, people who self-harm and their families and carers to understand its causes, meaning and treatment. Each chapter integrates theory along with clinical illustration, enabling the direct experiences of those who self-harm to be heard and reflecting the populations that are most likely to self-harm. The contributors are drawn from a wide range of backgrounds, including clinical psychology, psychotherapy, group analysis and psychiatric nursing. Areas of discussion include: self-harm and young people in foster care and residential settings self-harm in women's secure services self-harm in people diagnosed with personality disorder. This book does not offer a prescription for self-harm cessation but rather describes therapeutic approaches to working with self-harm, and outlines the complex, subtle and meaningful interactions between those who engage in self-harm and those who seek to understand it. With a specialist interest in women's self harm, "Managing Self Harm" will be essential reading to all mental health professionals including clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and social workers.

About the Editor(s)

Anna Motz is a Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist with the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust working within Offender Care and a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with extensive experience of working with women with trauma and offending histories. She is the author of The Psychology of Female Violence: Crimes Against the Body and Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence, and the Editor of Managing Self Harm: Psychological Perspectives.

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