Larger	Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation Author: Steven Levenkron
	Book Information Publisher: W. W. Norton Company Book Type: Paperback Rating: 15 ISBN-13: 9780393319385 - ISBN-10: 0393319385 Publication Date: 9/14/1998 Pages: 269 Book Reviews

The author of the seminal and groundbreaking Treating and Overcoming Anorexia Nervosa now explains the phenomena of self-mutilation, a disorder that affects as many as two million Americans. Cutting takes the reader through the psychological experience of the person who seeks relief from mental pain and anguish in self-inflicted physical pain. Steven Levenkron traces the components that predispose a personality to becoming a self-mutilator: genetics, family experience, childhood trauma, and parental behavior. Written for the self-mutilator, parents, friends, and therapists, Levenkron explains why the disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors and, most of all, describes how the self-mutilator can be helped.