CONTENTS
Preface to the Revised Edition
Chapter 1: What Is Self-Mutilation?
Chapter 2: The Phenomenon of a Self-Destructive Act
Chapter 3: Who Is the Self-Mutilator?
Chapter 4: The Reactions of Others
Chapter 5: How the Disorder Takes Shape
Chapter 6: How and Why the Disorder Deepens
Chapter 7: Attachment Patterns
Chapter 8: The Benefits of Self-Wounding
Chapter 9: The Value of Pain in Our Culture
Chapter 11: Incest and Other Childhood Abuse: Fusing Pain with Security
Chapter 12: A Perspective on Change
Chapter 13: Reaching Out to Reach In
Chapter 14: Who Can Be the Helpers?
Chapter 15: Bumps Along the Road
Chapter 16: Caught Between Symptom and Attachment
Chapter 17: Moving Backwards to Recovery
Chapter 18: Achieving Genuine Communication with Others
Chapter 19: Analyzing and Confronting the Past