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Cutting it out : a journey through psychotherapy and self-harm / Carolyn Smith ; foreword by Maggie Turp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Carolyn, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychotherapy.
- Self-injurious behavior--Patients--England--Biography.
- Self-injurious behavior.
- Self-mutilation--Patients--England--Biography.
- Self-mutilation.
- Smith, Carolyn, 1975---Health.
- Smith, Carolyn.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (130 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st American pbk. ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, PA : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first-person narrative offers a vividly honest voice to the feelings and compulsions that drive someone to harm themselves and explores the conflict between the desire to self-harm and the struggle to control and overcome this addictive, self-destructive behaviour. It also explores the complex nature of her relationship with her therapist.
- Contents:
- Mind the gap
- Sweet rebellion
- The traveller
- Can you keep a secret?
- Is it a bird?
- Rituals and legends
- Let's face the music
- Treacle Tuesday
- Bedrooms and nests
- Well trained
- Dream on
- Timber!
- Anthropomorphic adventures
- Ejected
- An understanding
- Reflections
- Operation bin
- Silent scrawl
- Childish interpretations
- Rescue me
- A break too many
- Fruit bowl stuff
- All change.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-84642-456-9
- 1-280-56627-2
- 9786610566266
- OCLC:
- 476047619
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