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Psyche on the skin : a history of self-harm / Sarah Chaney.
LIBRA RC552.S4 C43 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaney, Sarah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-mutilation--History.
- Self-injurious behavior--History.
- Schizotypal personality disorder--History.
- Phlebotomy--History.
- Self-Injurious Behavior--history.
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder--history.
- Bloodletting--history.
- Phlebotomy.
- History.
- Schizotypal personality disorder.
- Self-injurious behavior.
- Self-mutilation.
- Medical Subjects:
- Self-Injurious Behavior--history.
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder--history.
- Bloodletting--history.
- Genre:
- Self-mutilation.
- Physical Description:
- 315 pages : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2017.
- Contents:
- 1 The Pre-History of Self-Harm: From Ancient Castration to Medicinal Bloodletting 19
- 2 Morbid Impulse and Moral Insanity: The Emergence of Self-mutilation in Late Nineteenth-century Psychiatry 51
- 3 Sexual Self-Mutilation: Masturbation, Masculinity and Self-control in Late Victorian Britain 81
- 4 Motiveless Malingerers: Multiple Personality, Attention-seeking and Hysteria around 1900 112
- 5 Focal Suicide: Hypersexuality, Masochism and the Death Instinct in Psychoanalysis 143
- 6 Delicate Self-Cutting: Schizophrenia and the 'Borderline' in Post-war North America 175
- 7 Trigger Happy: Culture, Contagion and Trauma in the Internet Age 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 279-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1780237502
- 9781780237503
- OCLC:
- 951835211
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