{"product_id":"the-tender-cut-patricia-a-adler-9780814705063","title":"The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlluminates the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the 21st century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia A. Adler,Peter Adler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814705065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814705063\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2012","brand":"Patricia A. Adler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47425076396287,"sku":"9780814705063","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_789761e2-49b5-4eed-8caa-b576b99fb663.jpg?v=1761536845","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-tender-cut-patricia-a-adler-9780814705063","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}