{"product_id":"9780814705186","title":"The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury","description":"\u003cp\u003eCutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one’s own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, \u003ci\u003eThe Tender Cut\u003c\/i\u003e argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, \u003ci\u003eThe Tender Cut\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129679102192,"sku":"9780814705186","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814705186_p0.jpg?v=1769909680","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814705186","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}