Responses to Self Harm

Leigh Dale is professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and editor of the journal Australian Literary Studies and has published on Australian and postcolonial literatures.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceSourcesIntroductionChapter 1. Classical and Christian Stories of Self HarmEthnographies of the GalliMythographies of AttisPsychoanalysis and the Uses of AttisSelf Harm and Religious ExpressionModern Medicine and the Uses of MythSpectre and Spectacle: Self Harm as PerformanceChapter 2. Delicate Structures? Case Studies of Self HarmSelf Enucleation and Ingestion of NeedlesMalingering Versus Mental Illness: Respecting Patients?The Deserving PatientThe Undeserving PatientDiagnosing and Disclosing Self Harm: DermatologyDermatology and the “mysterious mental element”Responding to Self HarmDemonizing Self Harm: Beverley Allitt and AfterChapter 3. Self Harm as Malingering: Criminology and Military MedicineMilitant Medicine: Self Harm as CrimeSelf Harm in PrisonDoctors Resisting?The First World WarThe Secret BattleConclusionsChapter 4. The Alien Self: Psychiatry and PsychologyCriminology Finds the PsychePierre JanetThe Unknown Ancestor: DabrowskiFreud and His Followers: Brunswick, Lewis and GreenacreKarl Menninger and Man Against HimselfFreud in Practice: Case ReportsTheorizing Self Harm: Otto FenichelChallenging Freud: Horney on Feminine MasochismReviving Feminine MasochismFerenczi and His FollowersReflections: Reading Self HarmThe Impact of Self HarmBehaviorismSpeculations on Siblings, Speech and Controlled ­Re-EnactmentThe Language of Self Harm: Speech and Controlled ­Re-EnactmentResearching Self HarmChapter NotesBibliographyIndex