The Self Injury Anthology Project: Nonfictional Literature

Marilee Strong - A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain (DIANE Publishing Co./1998)
The memoirs of a self injurer.

S. Marie - CAPTĪV (The Express Press/2000)
Self injury poetry anthology.

Alicia Clarke - Coping With Self-Mutilation: A Helping Book for Teens Who Hurt Themselves (Rosen Publishing Group/1999)

Kathleen Winkler - Cutting and Self-Mutilation: When Teens Injure Themselves (Teen Issues) (Enslow Publishers, Inc./2003)

Ann Holmes et al. - Cutting the Pain Away: Understanding Self-Mutilation (Encyclopedia of Psychological Disorders) (Chelsea House Pub/1999)

Cutting: The Risk - Self-harm, self-care and risk reduction (National Self-harm Network/2000)

Steven Levenkron - Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation (W.W. Norton & Company/1998)

Gina Ng - Everything You Need to Know About Self-Mutilation: A Helping Book for Teens Who Hurt Themselves (Need to Know Library) (Rosen Publishing Group/1998)

Jan Sutton - Healing the Hurt Within : Understand and Relieve the Suffering Behind Self-Destructive Behaviour (How to Books Ltd/1999)

Kim Hewitt - Mutilating the Body: Identity in Blood and Ink (Popular Press/1997)

Tracy Alderman - The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence (New Harbinger Pubns./1997)

Caroline Kettlewell - Skin Game (VHPS/St. Martin's Press/1999)
The memoirs of a self injurer.

Kristy Trautmann et al. - Understanding Self-Injury: A Workbook for Adults (Pittsburgh Action Against Rape/1994)

Gerrilyn Smith - Women and Self-Harm: Understanding, Coping, and Healing from Self-Mutilation (Routledge/1999)

Jane Wegscheider Hyman - Women Living With Self-Injury (Temple Univ. Press/1999)

Mike Smith - Working with Self-harm (Handsell/1998)

Marya Hornbacher - Wasted (Flamingo/1998)
Autobiography of Hornbacher, an eating disordered, who also got involved in self injurious behaviour.

Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation (Quartet Books/1996)
Autobiography of young depressed woman, involved in self injurious behaviour.

Nick Johnstone - A Head Full of Blue (Bloomsbury/2002)
Memoirs of journalist Nick Johnstone, describing his battle with alcoholism and self injourious behaviour.

Susanna Kaysen - Girl,Interrupted (Virago Press/2000)
Autobiography of Susanna Kaysen's time at a psychiatric hospital.

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