This portion of the site contains information about self-injury. Much of the information is taken from Armando Favazza's excellent book Bodies Under Seige: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry(Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1987, 1996) 2nd Ed. I have followed his categorisation of types of SI.

What is Self-Injury?
Major SI
Stereotypic SI
Superficial SI
Bibliography

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