The tender cut inside the hidden world of self injury adler patricia a adler peter 9780814705070 books amazonca. The tender cut inside the hidden world of self injury new york new york university press 2011 264 pp 7500 isbn 9780814705070 the tender cut presents a comprehensive discussion of self injury through a sociological lens it presents voices of people who self injure within their social and personal contexts discussing the complex mosaic of reasons why people self injure and . Cutting burning branding and bone breaking are all types of self injury or the deliberate non suicidal destruction of ones own body tissue a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. We focus in this book on the deliberate nonsuicidal destruction of ones own body tissue incorporating practices such as self cutting burning branding scratching picking at skin also called acne mutilation psychogenic or neurotic excoriation self inflicted dermatosis or dermatillomania reopening wounds biting head banging hair pulling trichotillomania hitting with a hammer or other object swallowing or embedding objects breaking bones or teeth tearing. The tender cut inside the hidden world of self injury by patricia a adler 2011 08 22 patricia a adlerpeter adler books amazonca