Posted by noa on October 31, 2000, at 19:02:10
In reply to other message on my miscarriage and self-injury, posted by judy1 on October 31, 2000, at 13:00:22
A while back I read a book on self-injury called Cutting : Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
by Steven Levenkron (see Dr. Bob's "read" page, link at top of babble page). He said that there are two basic types of self-injury--with and without the dissociation.I don't think it necessarily calls for a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder, and actually, even if that Dx fits, it isn't all that helpful in addressing the self-injury, which Dr. Levenkron describes as a problem that many therapists haven't been trained to treat. Anyway, you might want to take a look at that book (I took it out from the library), as well as the book, Bodily Harm : The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers
by Karen Conterio, Wendy Lader.
Also, the authors of Bodily Harm base their book on their experience running an organization called SAFE (Self Abuse Finally Ends) which runs specialized programs. There was a US website, but now all I could find was the Canadian SAFE website:
http://www.wwdc.com/safe/index.htm
Also, there are quite a few websites about self injury. Here is one:http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html
When you visit these sites, tho, keep in mind that cutting is also associated with other problems, and so a lot of the links that you will see may or may not be relevant for you. I think that there are probably many many different reasons self-injurious behaviors develop.
poster:noa
thread:1887
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20001031/msgs/1899.html