When the Body Is the Target - Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments (Hardcover)

In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discusses various kinds and functions of self-harm behavior. From eating disorders to body modifications such as tattooing, Dr. Farber explores the language of self-harm, and the translation of that language and its psychic functions in the therapeutic setting. She tells us, 'When the body weeps tears of blood, we need to wonder what terrible sorrows cannot be spoken.' Brilliantly illustrated with rich clinical material, this book offers a practical approach to the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of the increasing number of patients whose emotions are expressed through bodily harm. The challenges of working with patients who tend to view the world of relationships in terms of predator and prey are clearly explicated and the stormy countertransference responses that threaten to destroy the treatment are given a full hearing. Finally, she shows how the attachment relationship formed in treatment can repair the traumatic attachment in mind, body, psyche, and soul, and can serve as the cornerstone of therapeutic change. A Jason Aronson Book

General

Imprint:	Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2000
First published:	August 2000
Authors:	Sharon Klayman Farber
Dimensions:	238 x 162 x 45mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	580
ISBN-13:	978-0-7657-0256-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Abnormal psychology Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Specific disorders & therapies > General
LSN:	0-7657-0256-8
Barcode:	9780765702562

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