The tender cut : inside the hidden world of self-injury / Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler.

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2011], ©2011.

xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Literature and population -- Studying self-injury -- Becoming a self-injurer -- The phenomenology of the cut -- Loners in the social world -- Colleagues in the cyber world -- Self-injury communities -- Self-injury relationships -- The social transformation of self-injury -- Careers in self-injury -- Understanding self-injury.