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News Sites
Health Sites
- Cutting – Focuses on cutting but mentions other forms of self injury. Mentions different ways of getting help.
- Self-Abuse: A Cutting-Edge Addiction? – A short article from drDrew.
- The Self Mutilation Syndrome: Solutions – This article focuses on the various treatments available for self injurers. Part two of a series. Part one is titled Bleeding For Help: The Self Mutilation Syndrome.
- Suffering in Silence: Pressures of Youth Can Lead to Self-Mutilation, Experts Say – A story from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reproduced on the APA news site.
- Suicide and Deliberate Self-Harm – Hilary Jones gives a brief introduction to the subkect of self-harm. From NetDoctor.co.uk.
- Understanding Self Injury – Article by Stuart Sorensen.
- Why People Harm Themselves – A doctor describes his first experience with a self-harming patient.
Magazines
- Beneath the Skin This article from Wench describes the author’s own experience with self injury. Has a good description of self injury rituals.
- Living under the knife – A review of Steven Levenkron’s Cutting, this piece also has some personal thoughts on self injury from the reviewer.
- Self-Inflicted Violence: Helping Those Who Hurt Themselves This article by Tracy Alderman is available on the following sites:
- Cutting – An article from Teen.
- Cutting: Self-Injury by Teens – An article from No Hurt (a publication of Young People’s Press). Tells the stories of two young people who used to self-injure.
- Secret Shame – An article by Gordon Houghton (home page), author of The Dinner Party. The three parts cover the professional/medical approach, the experience of individuals, and what people can do to stop. From the Richmond Review.
- Tough Love: Hurting Yourself – An advice column.
About.com
- Recovering from Self-Injury – Describes why people self-injure and mentions some current treatment methods.
- Self-Injury – A somewhat jumbled piece on self-injury from About.com.
- Troubled Teens: Fact Sheets for Parents. Part 1: Self-Injury – A brief fact sheet on self injury.
Suite101.com
Under the subject heading self-mutilation Suite101.com offer the following articles.
- Eating Disorders and Cutting
- Is Self-Mutilation a Disorder?
- Pain: It cuts like a knife
- Suicidal Ideation And Self Mutilation
A series of Suite101.com articles by Sheri Wallace:
Weblogs
- Male SI: A Personal Perspective A rare account of a male who self injures. This article is from Kuro5hin, so a lengthy discussion of the article is included.
Chat Transcripts
- Self Injury Community Conference Transcripts – Chats with various guests (Wendy Lader, among others) at HealthyPlace.
- Self-Injury Chat Transcript – Features Dr. Tracy Alderman.