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Title: Living on the Razor's Edge: Solution-Oriented Brief Family Therapy with Self-Harming Adolescents by Matthew D. Selekman ISBN: 0-393-70335-5 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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Summary: Dangerous Arrogance
Comment: This book continues the unscientific and simplistic family systems theory that claims that all psychological problems are the fault of the family and never the individual, and as usual, simply dismiss psychiatric disorders. Self-mutilation is most closely associated with borderline personality disorder. The author claims the DSM-IV does not allow diagnosis of personality disorders under 18 (not true). It is true that many adolescent females "copycat" the cutting of other adolescents, but the one they are copying likely has a borderline personality disorder (and consequently a great deal of skill at manipulating others). The person with the personality disorder needs far more than brief family therapy, and the copycat should not have their family blamed but instead be kept away from the borderline they are copying. And it is critical to separate the two phenomenon. The author provides no research data to back up his claims, only a few carefully chosen cases. Family systems has much to offer as an adjunctive therapy, and sometimes as a primary therapy, but like chiropractors, they need to stop claiming to be able to explain and cure everything because in the process they discredit themselves and do damage to many of the people they try to uniformly apply their theory and therapy to. This book continues that unfortuante legacy.
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Title: The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence by Tracy Alderman ISBN: 1572240792 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Solution-Focused Therapy with Children: Harnessing Family Strengths for Systemic Change by Matthew D. Selekman ISBN: 1572307900 Publisher: Guilford Publications Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron ISBN: 0393319385 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bodily Harm : The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self Injurers by Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader ISBN: 0786885041 Publisher: Hyperion Pub. Date: 13 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain by Marilee Strong ISBN: 0140280537 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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