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Why do we hurt ourselves?: understanding self-harm in social life (1st Edition.)

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Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?

What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives?

In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves, sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-injurers and suggests that the answers can be traced to social, more than personal, causes.

Self-injury is not a matter of disturbed individuals resorting to hurting themselves in the face of individual weaknesses and difficulties.

Rather, self-injury is the reaction of individuals to the tensions that compose, day after day, the tumultuousness of their social life and position.

Self-harm is a practice that people use to self-control and maintain order-to calm down, or to avoid "e;going haywire"e; or "e;breaking everything."e; More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies.

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Indiana University Press
0253036410 / 9780253036414
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
14/06/2018
English
185 pages
152 x 229 mm
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