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Secret Pain : Understanding And Treating Self-Injurious Behaviors In Women, Eva Schoen
Secret Pain : Understanding And Treating Self-Injurious Behaviors In Women, Eva Schoen
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This paper is an attempt to raise awareness of the presence of self-injury in Western societies. Causes, symptoms, related diagnoses, and treatment of self-injurious behaviors will be discussed. Most importantly, however, this paper is meant to challenge and, ultimately, decrease the stigma surrounding SD and increase empathy and compassion for the self-injuring person.
Due to constraints of this research paper, the author focuses on female self-injurers and excludes information on self-injury in mentally retarded individuals and prisoners.