Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry

摘要: This work analyzes the complex issues surrounding self-mutilation, drawing on case studies from clinical psychiatry and cultural anthropology to show that phenomenon is deeply embedded culturally, far more common than often thought. Although body modification blood rituals are shown be in many religions, rites-of-passage ceremonies, therapeutic procedures, deviant author argues, a distinct syndrome of impulse dyscontrol beginning adolescence associated with eating disorders. According author, up half all female chronic self-mutilators have history anorexia or bulimia. edition contains new information diagnosis treatment self-mutilation; link between self-mutilation disorders; research neurotransmitter serotonin, advances drug therapy.