Overview

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.

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Author:   Sharon Klayman Farber
Publisher:   Jason Aronson Publishers
Imprint:   Jason Aronson Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 4.50cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   1.107kg
ISBN:  

9780765702562

ISBN 10:   0765702568
Pages:   580
Publication Date:   01 August 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 The Borderland of Self-Harm Chapter 2 The Mystery of Self-Harm: Concepts and Paradoxes Chapter 3 How Common Is Self-Harm? Chapter 4 Not Wanting to Know about Self-Harm: Trauma, Violence, and Chronic Mental Illness Part 5 Neglect, Violence, and Traumatic Attachments Chapter 6 Suffering and Self-Harm: Treating Oneself as the Other Dehumanization of the Other and Violent Suffering Chapter 7 How Attachments Go Haywire Chapter 8 The Psyche-Soma and Traumatic Attachments to Pain and Suffering Chapter 9 Survival and Sacrifice: When the Prey Becomes the Predator Chapter 10 Trauma, Duality, and the Transformation from Prey to Predator Part 11 The Body Speaks Chapter 12 The Body Speaks That Which Cannot Be Spoken Chapter 13 Self-Harm, Gender, and Perversion Chapter 14 The Addiction to Wanting: ""Do Not Want What You Cannot Have"" Part 15 Clinical Implications Chapter 16 The Attachment Paradigm Chapter 17 Diagnosis, Assessment, and Core Features Chapter 18 Using Attachment Theory in Therapy of Self-Harm Patients Chapter 19 Transference, Countertransference, and Enactments Chapter 20 From Self-Harm to Self-Reflection"

Reviews

Using clear and incisive language, Dr. Farber elegantly and empathically cuts to the core of the extreme suffering that our patients who repeatedly harm themselves endure. She provides an exhaustive, scholarly review of the underpinnings of self-mutilation and related behaviors in this beautifully written book. She then goes on to present one of the most sophisticated theoretical and clinical explanations to date showing why these behaviors have become so pervasive, how we can understand them, and what we can do to alleviate the suffering that is at the root of such disorders.--Edward J. Khantzian

Author Information

Sharon Klayman Farber, Ph.D., is a Board Certified Diplomate in clinical social work practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Dr. Farber earned her Ph.D. in clinical social work from New York University, and trained at the Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy and privately in psychoanalysis and child treatment. She is the founder of Mothertalk, a parent guidance group, and Westchester Eating Disorders Consultation Services. In addition to teaching, writing, and supervising, she maintains a general practice with specializations in child and adolescent treatment and treatment of people with eating and other psychosomatic disorders.

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