Self-Mutilation

by Mary E. Williams

Each year, 1 in 5 females and 1 in 7 males engage in self injury. This self injury is often a coping mechanism for far more serious issues. Enable your readers to engage in a necessary debate about this topic. The essays collected here are provided in a pro versus con sequence, so that readers can evaluate more than one side to every topic. Across four chapters, readers will examine whether self-mutilation is a serious problem, whether body modification falls within mutilation, what triggers self-mutilation, and what should be done to reduce self-mutilating behavior. Essay sources include Teen Vogue, LifeSIGNS, and the Cornell University Family Life Development Center.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

First published December 7, 2007

Reviews

[Kate Collins · Rating 3 out of 5]

It might be good for someone more unfamiliar with cutting. There was an interesting chapter on fighting the urge to cut being bad for you, but other than that, I found it didn't tell me much more than I already knew.

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, like someone else's review, I'd have to agree that this book could be pretty useful if you knew nothing on the topic. It provides a pretty comprehensive understanding of just the basics. But as someone who knows so much about the topic and has read so many other books, it didn't teach me anything new at all. Nevertheless, I feel like it could be a handy book for others.