I remember the first time I saw a client who engaged in “cutting,” or what professionals now refer to as self-injurious behavior or SIB. I was working in a university counseling center in the ...

What's in a Name? In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote the now infamous lines, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Although Shakespeare ...

Self-embedding is an extreme form of self-injury, in which people (typically adolescents) insert objects into their body parts to deliberately hurt themselves or mutilate their bodies without ...

Between 36,000 and 1.5 million people engage in self-mutilation each year - cutting, burning, breaking bones and occasionally taking small doses of dangerous chemicals. Most are young people. Red ...

Data published by the Journal of the American Medical Association indicates a significant increase in self-harm behaviors ...