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Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program For Self-Injurers

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Authors: Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader, Jennifer Kingson Bloom
Publisher: Hyperion
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ISBN: 0786885041
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.8582
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Publication Date: October 13, 1999
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Product Description
Self-injury is one of our society's fastest-growing and most disturbing epidemics. Bodily Harm is the most authoritative examination of this alarming syndrome and the first to offer a comprehensive treatment regimen. Written by the directors of S.A.F.E. (Self Abuse Finally Ends) Alternatives, it clearly defines what cutting is and explains the kinds of emotional trauma that can lead to self-mutilation. Most importantly, Bodily Harm offers a course of treatment based on years of experience and extensive clinical research; as well as compassion, advice, and hope for the afflicted and their loved ones.

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Misguided and grandiose. October 29, 2009
S. Addison
Though this book introduced me to the topic of clinical work with self-injury, I am glad there have been many other authors who have explored this behavior, its meanings, and how to treat it. The SAFE program belittles and dehumanizes its participants, insisting that they immediately give up all SI-related behavior cold turkey, forbidding them any replacement activities (drawing marks on one's arm with a pen, for example, rather than making marks with a razor blade), and kicking them out of its (expensive, residential) program for the slightest infraction. Trip over your own feet in the hall? If staff decides you are "manipulating" and injuring, boom, you're gone.

Clinicians who work with a variety of maladaptive behaviors - SI, substance use, compulsive gambling, cognitive-behavioral problems, OCD - know that going "cold turkey" is often not realistic. Before you take away someone's "crutch," you have to find a less-harmful replacement until the client learns new ways of coping. Self-help approaches like those suggested on the Secret Shame website document the value of a harm-reduction-based strategy that temporarily redirects SI impulses into safer behaviors while healing takes place. Extensive reearch into harm reduction and use of motivational interviewing and the stages of change model has shown that relapse is part of the recovery process, a normal stage along the way to getting free of harmful behaviors, and should rarely be grounds for termination of therapy.

The authors' approach denies the addictive qualities of SI behavior, something clinicians who work with SI in the general population can see for ourselves. In fact, there is no single motivation for SI, no one meaning it has for clients, and thus there can be no one treatment. Treating self-injuring clients like manipulative children condescends to them, minimizes their pain and rage, and does them a disservice. For a better, less judgmental look at the many motivations behind SI, try "A Bright Red Scream" or "Bodies Under Siege."

5 out of 5 stars

Great book for understanding self-harm August 26, 2008
Seyma Cavusoglu
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I am a professional counselor who works with many individuals with self-harming problems. This book has been very helpful in order to understand their perspective and their behaviors. It was a great resource that enabled me to look beyond the behavior and to see what is really going on for them. I would definitely recommend it to both the professionals and individuals who are looking for great insight.

5 out of 5 stars

The Best Book July 30, 2008
Andrew W. Levander (Los Angeles, CA)
Hello,

This is the best book on this very special and misunderstood problem. If you can only get one book, buy this book and share it with anyone you know.

Andrew Levander

5 out of 5 stars

"SAFEd my life" February 9, 2007
Schmetterling (Atlanta, GA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

AMAZING. I read this book last spring when I was a freshman in college and had fallen back into the nightmarish mess of self-injury. At the time I was just looking for comfort, not a solution, so I didn't tell anyone I'd read it--no way was I *ever* going to go to the SAFE program. However, once things spun super out-of-control, I made the opposite decision. SAFE was the hardest thing I've ever done, but definitely the most worth it. I still injure on occasion, but I have the most amazing support network, better coping mechanisms and distractions, and methods of logging impulses.

This book is the only book on the topic that I've read that has not been triggering for me. If you self-injure or if you love someone who injures, this is a must-read. Please do it for yourself. You don't have to be considering the program, just open yourself up. Nothing else worked for me before this.

I AM STRONG. You can be, too!

2 out of 5 stars

So-So May 27, 2006
Emily Long (North Carolina)
11 out of 14 found this review helpful

This book as some good points and the program it discusses may be very successful. My main problem with this book and most others on SI is it's emphasis on SI stemming from childhood abuse or trauma. I self-injured for nearly 4 years as a teen and have never been abused in any way. According to this book if I wasn't overtly abused, I was biologically frail and sensitive to less obvious abuse or trauma. That is just insulting. I am now a counselor myself and I can assure you, I was never abused. While many individuals who self-injure may have been abused I think it is time to acknowledge those who self-injure and weren't abused instead of simply dismissing their experiences.

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