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Title: Not a good book for sufferers
Review: Although this book provided a lot of information about self injury, I felt that it was more geared towards doctors/therapists than to people who hurt themselves. I found it very technical and a little impersonal. It offered so many different possible explanation for self injury that all it actually ended up saying was that no one really knows why people deliberately hurt themselves. I also didn't like the way it referred to self injury as "self mutilation" throughout the book. It is too harsh a term, and not one that sufferers like to use or hear. Overall, the book gives much information about self injury, some of it very scientific, but it is not the best choice if you are a person who hurts yourself.
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