Ruta Mazelis: Cutting Edge Self Injury
First Aired: 09-27-2006 -- 2 comments | Add comment
Self-injury and cutting with Ruta Mazelis, psychiatric abuse survivor and editor for 17+ years of the acclaimed newsletter “The Cutting Edge”. Cutting, burning, head banging and other self-harm are discussed from the point of view of people doing them — as coping mechanisms that need compassion and understanding, not the force and judgment of mainstream psychiatry.
Check out http://www.healingselfinjury.org
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What a great show! Thank you so much! I didn’t notice that there is actually a lot of feminist criticism of the borderline label. Could you point out some resources?
Hi there, try, http://healingselfinjury.org, Judith Herman’s book Trauma and Recovery, and Paula Caplan’s work. — Will