Inckle, Kay 
ORCID: 0000-0002-9071-1396
(2017)
National self-injury awareness day: social justice, user-led interventions and challenging stigma.
Researching Sociology
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Abstract
Self-injury – or self-harm as it is commonly known – is a coping mechanism whereby someone causes direct pain and/or injury to their own body. It is stereotypically associated with many of the following: ‘mental illness’, adolescent girls, Emos/youth subcultures, ‘personality disorder’, suicide, attention-seeking and sometimes violence or danger towards others. However, none of these accurately reflect the experience: self-injury is usually a private and secret experience, it is a means of staying alive rather than attempting to die, it is self-directed not other-directed, and it is not specific to any one group of people.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/researchingsociology/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2017 15:07 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2025 23:16 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/82192 |
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