Parents, teachers, friends, and even many clinicians are both
horrified and mystified upon discovering teenagers who
intentionally cut, burn, and otherwise inflict pain upon
themselves. Often causing permanent and extensive scarring, as well
as infections, cutting is increasingly prevalent among today's
youth. As many as 1 in 100 adolescents report cutting themselves,
representing a growing epidemic of scarred and tormented youths, as
we see in this revealing work. As author Plante discusses here, the
threat of suicide must always be carefully evaluated, although the
majority of cutters are not in fact suicidal. Instead, cutting
represents a growing teenage method for easing emotional pain and
suffering. Bleeding from self-inflicted wounds not only helps to
numb and vent the despair, it can also be a dramatic means of
communicating, controlling, and asking for help from others.
Parents, teachers, friends, and even many clinicians are both
horrified and mystified upon discovering teenagers who
intentionally cut, burn, and otherwise inflict pain on themselves.
Often causing permanent and extensive scarring, as well as
infections, cutting is increasingly prevalent among today's youth.
As many as 1 in 100 adolescents report cutting themselves,
representing a growing epidemic of scarred and tormented youth, as
we see in this revealing work. Author Plante explains the threat of
suicide must always be carefully evaluated, although the vast
majority of cutters are not in fact suicidal. Instead, cutting
represents a growing teenage method for easing emotional pain and
suffering. Bleeding from self-inflicted wounds not only helps to
numb and vent despair, it can also be a dramatic means of
communicating, controlling, and asking for help from others. In
this book, Plante features the stories of self-injurers and helps
the reader understand the meaning of the injuries, and how to help
teens stop. This author, who is a psychologist, a parent, and a
Stanford University Medical School faculty member, explains in
clear detail how cutters and the adults who love them can heal the
pain and stop self-injury. Plante describes the frightening
developmental tasks teenagers and young adults face, and how the
central challenges of the three I's (Independence, Intimacy, and
Identity) compel them to cope through self-destructive acts.
Readers will feel as if they are in the therapy room with Plante
and these struggling teenagers as they seek to overcome their
internal pain and that desperate need to cut and self-injure.
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