{"product_id":"the-tender-cut-inside-the-hidden-world-of-selfinjury-9780814705070","title":"The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury","description":"\u003cp\u003eChoices Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 2013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society Honorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction  Illuminates the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the 21st century  Cutting  burning  branding  and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury  or the deliberate  non-suicidal destruction of ones own body tissue  a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture  The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism  a form of teenage angst  an expression of group membership  and a type of rebellion  converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain.  Based on the largest  qualitative  non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered  noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world  along with 30 000-40 000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqus. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others  to the present  where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms  values  lore  vocabulary  and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior  The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century  its effects on current and former users  and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647270477877,"sku":"ByrdShop_0814705073","price":21.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780814705070.jpg?v=1781691311","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-tender-cut-inside-the-hidden-world-of-selfinjury-9780814705070","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}