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In this courageous, beautifully written book, Dr. Robin Connors has dared to address, with much compassion and understanding, the issue of patients who engage in behaviors that many of us find incomprehensible if not downright offensive. She views self-inflicted violence as a fundamentally adaptive and life-preserving coping mechanism a desperate effort to preserve self-integrity in the face of impending fragmentation. These behaviors are enactments, to communicate something deeply important about the patient's internal experience. The therapeutic goal then is to help these patients speak the unspeakable, tolerate the intolerable, and manage the unmanageable. Connors's book is at once life-affirming, heartwarming, and inspiring a must-read for any of us working with patients who inflict injury upon themselves as a frantic call for help.--Martha Stark, MD

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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, teacher at Arsenal Family and Children's Center, and research assistant at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. Dr. Connors has taught many training courses to therapists in diverse settings, practiced as a divorce mediator, edited a newsletter offering legal information to mental health professionals, and worked as a freelance writer. She currently specializes in work with women experiencing life transitions, trauma survivors, and couples.

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