Self Injury
Robin E. Connors
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Description for Self Injury
Hardback. Offers guidelines to clinicians to improve their capacity to respond in a direct, effective, and respectful way to people who self-injure. This work helps in understanding the function of self-inflicted violence and its relationship to unresolved traumas and losses, including the role of trauma in disrupting the formation of the self-boundary. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: JMP; MMJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 35. Weight in Grams: 758.
People who directly injure their bodies are increasingly seeking help from psychotherapists. Coming out of the closet of shame, they are turning to professionals for understanding, compassion, and healing. Because of the potent nature of self-injury and the variety of issues it touches, clinical responses to it have often been only moderately beneficial and, in too many cases, distinctly harmful. In this perceptive work, Dr. Robin Connors offers helpful guidelines to clinicians that will improve their capacity to respond in a direct, effective, and respectful way to people who self-injure. Key to this work is understanding the function ... Read more
People who directly injure their bodies are increasingly seeking help from psychotherapists. Coming out of the closet of shame, they are turning to professionals for understanding, compassion, and healing. Because of the potent nature of self-injury and the variety of issues it touches, clinical responses to it have often been only moderately beneficial and, in too many cases, distinctly harmful. In this perceptive work, Dr. Robin Connors offers helpful guidelines to clinicians that will improve their capacity to respond in a direct, effective, and respectful way to people who self-injure. Key to this work is understanding the function ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Northvale NJ, United States
ISBN
9780765702647
SKU
V9780765702647
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99-15
About Robin E. Connors
Robin E. Connors, Ph.D., a clinician and consultant in private practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is the co-author of Understanding Self-Injury: A Workbook for Adults. She has published extensively in professional journals, including her articles on self-injury in trauma survivors in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. She was clinical supervisor at Pittsburgh Action Against Rape, consultant to Lakewood Hospital Psychiatric Hospital, ... Read more
Reviews for Self Injury
No longer need the topic of self-inflicted violence be approached with confusion and trepidation. The arrival of Self-Injury: Psychotherapy with People Who Engage in Self-Inflicted Violence offers a sigh of relief and a cry of celebration. With gentle wisdom and intellectual mastery, Dr. Connors transcends previous work on this subject. Her dignified presentation and simple genius will impact all who ... Read more