Making Sense of Self-harm

Steggals, Peter

doi:10.1057/9781137470591

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“…This means that the self-harming child is assumed to be, or be able to become, aware of the motives for their selfinjurious behavior. The self-harming child is thus shaped after a late-modern self that has control over its emotional life (Foucault, 1988;Steggals, 2015). But this also leads to an authorization of children's emotions and experiences as self-conscious beings.…”

Section: Joacim Strandmentioning

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Listening to children and young people in Sweden: Practices, possibilities, and tensions

Baldini,

Tiefenbacher,

Terzoglou

et al. 2024

Global Studies of Childhood

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This piece is a collective exploration by seven doctoral researchers in Child Studies, who discuss notions of listening to children and young people in a Swedish context. We approach different aspects of listening in research and in practices such as education, psychiatry, and social work. The discussions in this collective writing are an invitation for continuous reflections about the contexts where listening to children is done, its challenges and possibilities.

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Section: Joacim Strandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Listening to children and young people in Sweden: Practices, possibilities, and tensions

Baldini,

Tiefenbacher,

Terzoglou

et al. 2024

Global Studies of Childhood

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“…There are inter-related problems with many of the assumptions made about self-harm, problems which are compounded by the dominance of certain disciplinary perspectives, and by the marginalisation and compartmentalisation of others. Qualitative and narrative research with those who have self-harmed indicates a far more complex picture, with meanings, intentions, practices and contexts involved in self-harm each shaping what a 'relationship' with the practice entails (Brossard, 2018;Chandler, 2016;Steggals, 2015).…”

Section: The Context Of Self-harming Researchmentioning

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Provoked perplexity in live methods

Simopoulou,

Chandler

2023

Qualitative Research

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This article contributes to literature on live methods and specifically to the idea of research as an informed provocation of experience in the context of growing methodological experimentation in social science research. The liveness of our method sits with our close attention to inquiry as encompassing of human/non-human relational encounters that, drawing upon a materialism of lively matter, come together in the form of material thinking. We sought to foster a creative encounter between people with experience of self-harm and published narratives about self-harm in the light of ‘provoked perplexity’. We suggest that deliberately ‘provoking perplexity’ in creative and live methodologies, opens up possibilities for inquiry into the unimaginable and unthinkable. Participating in a series of collaborative, creative (visual art) response workshops, our participants troubled the idea of meaning as neat and coherent, linear and final, showing instead how it dwells precisely in the very process of inquiring by means of creative making that constitutes practice as research.

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“…In clinical and lay contexts, self-injury is heavily stigmatised, commonly taken up as a maladaptive, morbid and pathological form of emotion-regulation, disproportionately plaguing women and girls in 'advanced' western societies (Gholamrezaei et al, 2017;Nock, 2010). While sociologists have begun to systematically address NSSI as a topic of research (Adler & Adler, 2007;Chandler, 2016;Steggals, 2015), even coining a distinct 'sociology of self-injury' (Steggals et al, 2020), NSSID and self-injury have yet to be examined at the intersections of medical sociology and critical disability studies. This lack of an explicit disability framework for engaging in self-injury is somewhat surprising, given self-injury's historical relationship to psychiatric illness categories and prevalent psychiatric symptomatology (Chaney, 2017), the chronic, 'hard-to-stop' and emotionally and physically painful nature of self-injury (Chandler, 2016), as well as the stigma associated with the practice, which is frequently characterised as manipulative and attention-seeking (Pembroke, 1994).…”

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Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework

Redikopp

Smith

2022

Sociology Health & Illness

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This article explores the proposed psychiatric diagnostic category of nonsuicidal self-injury disorder (NSSID) through the lens of feminist psychiatric disability theory.Mobilising insights from labelling theory's accounts of stigma and recovery, in conjunction with critical and feminist disability theory's attention to emotional and physical pain, we suggest that a feminist psychiatric disability approach to NSSID can illuminate the limits of a fully demedicalised engagement with self-injury.While remaining critical of psychiatrisation processes, we explore the implications of 'strategic (dis)identifications' with illness labels as mechanisms through which to manage and access care, treatment and recovery. Such a nuanced account engenders more deeply material considerations of pain, stigma, treatment and 'cure' at the site of NSSID, opening new avenues of engagement with self-injury for sociologists and critical disability scholars alike.

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Making Sense of Self-harm

Cited by 20 publications

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Listening to children and young people in Sweden: Practices, possibilities, and tensions

Listening to children and young people in Sweden: Practices, possibilities, and tensions

Provoked perplexity in live methods

Interrogating nonsuicidal self‐injury disorder through a feminist psychiatric disability theory framework

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