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5.0 out of 5 stars
Jan Sutton's Second Edition, January 19, 2006
This review is from: Healing the Hurt Within: Understand Self-Injury and Self-Harm, and Heal the Emotional Wounds (Paperback)
Jan Sutton has been a leading advocate for better understanding and treatment of self-injury. She maintains two websites in the U.K. that provide many helpful suggestions and also assist caregivers. The second edition of this book has an attractive cover consisting of artwork by a self-injurer in recovery. Beyond the cover, the book clearly differentiates suicide from self-injury. It also provides many useful suggestions as to how to overcome self-injury. The book is informal in style and is unique in that it gives an equal voice to self-injurers themselves. The book is interspersed with many autobiographical statements, poems, and artwork from self-injurers. Jan Sutton's compassion and respect for self-injurers is clear throughout the book.
I highly recommend this book for self-injurers, their significant others, and helping professionals.
Barent Walsh, Ph.D.
Author of "Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide."
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