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

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

by Marilee Strong

"A bright red scream" is how one of the subjects Marilee Strong interviews in this chilling yet compassionate study of self-mutilation describes the sensation of intentionally inflicting pain upon oneself. It is a compulsion that, while shocking and bewildering to most people, affects 2 million or more Americans and countless others around the globe--one of whom, the late Princess Diana,... (read more)

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Marilee Strong is a journalist. She obviously did very, very extensive research for this book and the hard effort she made is very obvious and helps the book considerably.

This is not, of course, a happy book. It's filled with personal stories of people who have been through extremely intense physical and/or emotional pain and who have found the need to practice SIV, or Self Inflicted Violence, which is most often associated with cutting but can also include hiding and other forms of...

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