Author(s): Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader, Jennifer Kingson Bloom
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Pages: 317
Binding: Hardcover
Although the authors tend to endorse the medical model of psychiatry, they also directly confront the horrifying problem of literal, physical self-mutilation and self-destruction. They recognize that such behaviors serve a psychological "purpose," even if an irrational one, and they place the responsibility for change squarely on the troubled individual. Although they likely overstate the magnitude of this problem among the population, they do grasp some of the motives which could lead an individual to such extreme self-destruction.