Books about self-harm
TheSite.org has put together a list of books to help you if you're worried about any issues to do with self-harming, whether it's for you or someone else.
Who's hurting who?
A book based on interviews with 15 young people who talk about their experiences with the health services and why they decided to turn to self-harming in the first place.
Written by Helen Spandler (42nd Street)
Women and Self-harm
Looks at the reasons why women self-harm and the social, emotional and psychological reasons that lead to it. The book includes a wide range of resources and provides information about recovery and healing.
Written by Gerrilyn Smith, Dee Cox and Jacqui Saradjian (Women's Press Ltd)
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-injury
What is self-injury? Why do people deliberately hurt themselves? Why can't they stop? These are some of the questions that are looked at in this study.
Written by V.J. Turner (Hazelden Information & Educational Services)
Deliberate Self-Harm in Adolescence (Child & Adolescent Mental Health)
This book is mainly for professionals and parents of young people at risk of self-harming. It discusses the risk factors that lead to self-harm such as depression, substance abuse and antisocial behaviour.
Written by Claudine Fox and Keith Hawton (Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments
Dr. Sharon K. Farber explains how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop into self-harm. It talks about the addiction surrounding the ritual of self-harm and how it can be treated.
Written by Sharon Klayman Farber (Jason Aronson)
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
Contains lots of information about self-harm including what it is, who does it, how it develops and how you can support someone.
Written by Steven Levenkron (W. W. Norton)
Self Harm: The Path to Recovery
What is self harm? How does it develop? What are the steps to recovery? How can I help someone who self-harms? This book draws on lots of statistics, case studies and research to demystify myths surrounding self-harm.
Written by Kate Middleton, Sara Garvie (Lion Publishing plc)
Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-injury and Self-harm, and Heal the Emotional Wounds
Help and guidance for family and friends about how to understand and respond to people who are self-harming.
Written by Jan Sutton (How To Books Ltd)
Updated: 13/09/2010
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