Self-mutilation And Art Therapy: Violent Creation

This book examines the effect of art therapy interventions with clients who harm their bodies. The author explains how art therapy can help patients who self-harm and argues that using art as intervention supports the self-mutilating person's preference for ritualized symbolic action and their need to create transitional objects.

The book is practical and it extends our understanding of the concept of self-mutilation and how best it may be addressed.