Self-Harm

Self-Harm
Books on a wide range of self-harming behaviours, from cutting yourself to mis-using drink and drugs.
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking
Beyond Fear and Control
Bright Red Scream
Counselling The Person Beyond The Alcohol Problem
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation
Deliberate Self-Harm In Adolescence
Drinking: A Love Story
Effective Way to Stop Drinking
For Friends And Family
Getting It Right

Healing the Hurt Within
Journey Toward Complete Recovery
Language Of Injury
Making Sense of Self-Harm
Overcoming Compulsive Gambling
Scarred Soul
Self-Harm Help Book
What's the Harm
Working with Self-Injury

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking

by Allen Carr
£

This excellent book is unique in that it helps you cure your addiction to nicotine before you actually stop smoking. In a recent BBC Real Story documentary, it was the only method of those tried that enabled staff at an NHS hospital to stop smoking completely.

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Beyond Fear and Control : Working with Young People who Self-Harm

Edited by Helen Spandler & Sam Warner
£

“As the title suggests, this book aims to move services away from responses based on fear [and control]… Although the need for such a change is increasingly being recognised, the practical implications and ethical dilemmas of this shift have rarely been explored. This book addresses this gap by providing in-depth descriptions of a range of innovative practices”.

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A Bright Red Scream : Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

Edited by Marilee Strong
£

Based on interviews with over fifty self-injurers, combined with up-to-date research, to provide a compassionate insight into many of the reasons why people cut themselves.

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Counselling The Person Beyond The Alcohol Problem

by Richard Bryant-Jeffries
£

"I hope that it will help all health and social care professionals to look beyond the alcohol problem to the person who, more than anything else, needs another human being to... listen to his unique story and help him face up to difficulties that previously only alcohol eased."

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Cutting : Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

by Steven Levenkron
£

"Each of these self-harming people has a different history, a different motive, a different state of mind before, during, and after harming themselves. As their helpers, we will have to overcome our own feelings of discomfort. This book proposes to take the mystery out of the frightening phenomenon known as 'self-mutilation'."

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Deliberate Self-Harm In Adolescence

by C. Fox & K. Hawton
£

"The aim of this book is to provide a summary of information... It is hoped that the book will assist not only child and adolescent mental health professionals, but will also be of interest to parents and carers of children and adolescents who deliberately self-harm."

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Drinking : A Love Story

by Caroline Knapp
£

"I loved the way drink made me feel, and I loved its special power of deflection, its ability to shift my focus away from my own awareness of self and onto something else, something less painful than my own feelings. When you love somebody, or something, it's amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws."

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The Effective Way to Stop Drinking

by Beauchamp Colclough
£

"I hope that through this book I can pass on to you some knowledge and information to help you too to gain happiness and freedom from the abuse of alcohol that you deserve... You won't believe me now, but I want you to know that "stop" really means the start of something better than you'd believe possible at present."

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For Friends And Family : A Guide for Supporters of Women and Girls Who Self-Injure
by Lois Arnold for Bristol Crisis Service for Women
£

“This booklet begins by explaining what self-injury is… An important focus… is on you as a person involved with someone who self-injures. It considers what that experience may be like for you, and how to look after yourself as well as how to help the person you care about.”

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Getting It Right : A Guide to Creating A Self-Harm Policy
by Lois Arnold & Anne Magill
£

Another valuable title from The Basement Project, one of the UK's leaders in self-harm training. Designed to help organisations create a self-harm policy that will be workable and useful to them.
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Healing the Hurt Within : Understand Self-Injury and Self-Harm and Heal the Emotional Wounds

by Jan Sutton
£

Long-awaited New Edition Now Available! "...blends statistical data on self-injury with personal experiences of this perplexing behaviour. It reveals the truth about why people hurt themselves, highlights the struggles involved in breaking free from self-injury, and demonstrates that the battle can be won. In addition, it provides insight into two frequent companions of self-harm: food and alcohol misuse."

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Journey Toward Complete Recovery: Reclaiming Our Emotional , Spiritual & Sexual Wholeness
by Michael Picucci
£

Written for survivors of childhood trauma, addicts and others, this book offers ways to heal the hidden pain underlying most addictive or compulsive behaviours. Inclusive of different sexual orientations. Techniques include bodywork, emotional release therapies, Buddhist meditation and visualisation.

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The Language Of Injury : Comprehending Self-Mutilation

by Lois Arnold & Gloria Babiker
£

A sourcebook for all those who work with people who self-injure. Examines the origins and functional nature of self-injury, and provides practical guidelines for work in various settings. Stresses the importance of supervision and support for workers.

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Making Sense of Self-Harm
by Lois Arnold & Anne Magill
£

An informative book for friends, relatives and workers. "It will help you to: understand why people self-harm; know how to respond helpfully; support someone who self- harms."

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Overcoming Compulsive Gambling : A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques
by Alex Blaszczynski
£

"The guide to recovery in Part Two of this book offers gamblers step-by-step instruction in how to regain control over their behaviour and beat the gambling bug. We know the process works; all that is required on the part of the gambler is the genuine commitment to change.” Part One gives an overview of problem gambling.

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The Scarred Soul : Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence

by Tracy Alderman, PhD
£

"...self-inflicted violence (SIV), or deliberate self-injury, is a behaviour that helps people cope and survive. It is not a form of craziness or insanity". Aims to give a better understanding of SIV, show ways to decrease it when ready, and has a section to help friends, family and counsellors explore their own feelings and roles.

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The Self-Harm Help Book

by Lois Arnold & Anne Magill
£

"The idea for this book came from people who self-harm, and who wanted something they could use to help them to understand themselves better and to have more choices about how they cope with their lives and feelings... we would like to hold out the hope of easing the terrible pain that leads to self-harm."

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What's the Harm : A Book For Young People Who Self-Harm or Self-Injure

by Lois Arnold & Anne Magill
£

A down-to-earth, sympathetic and non-judgemental booklet. Talks about the many reasons people hurt themselves, how to make sure you don't go further than you meant to, and where to get help when you need it and are ready for it.

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Working with Self-Injury : A Practical Guide
by Lois Arnold & Anne Magil
£

This unique handbook provides much needed information, support and practical guidance for those working with the difficult issue of self-injury. Placing it in the broader context of self-harm, the authors provide advice about ways to help, while protecting staff. £5.95

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