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Self-Injury

By: Camille Gibson & Aisha Asby
In: Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide
Edited by: Andrew Scull
Subject:Sociology of Health & Illness, Clinical Psychology (general)
Keywords:disorders; injuries; nails; pain; self-mutiliation; the self; trichotillomania

Self-injury (sometimes called “self-harm,” “parasuicide,” “self-laceration,” “self-wounding” or “self-abuse”) refers to deliberate harm to a person's own body without a conscious intent to commit suicide. It is socially unacceptable violence to the self. It is now ...

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  Gibson, C., & Asby, A. (2014). Self-injury. In A. Scull (Ed.), Cultural sociology of mental illness: An A-to-Z guide (Vol. 1, pp. 784-785). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483346342.n288
  
  Gibson, Camille, and Aisha Asby. "Self-Injury." In Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Scull, Andrew, 784-85. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483346342.n288.
  
  Gibson, C. and Asby, A. 2014. Self-Injury. In: Andrew Scull Editor, 2014. Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 784-785 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483346342.n288> [Accessed 15 Jun 2021].
  
  Gibson, Camille and Aisha Asby. "Self-Injury." Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide. Edited by Andrew Scull. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2014, pp. 784-85. SAGE Knowledge. 15 Jun 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781483346342.n288.
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