Cover of Psyche on the Skin

Psyche on the Skin

by Sarah Chaney

2017 288 pages eng

"Self-harm is thought by many to be a modern epidemic: a phenomenon of the late twentieth century, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, particularly young women. Yet it was 150 years ago, within early asylum psychiatry, that self-mutilation was first codified as a category of beha…

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