Books That I Have Read and Recommend:

 1.  Bodily Harm  (The breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers)

            Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader, Ph.D.

 2.  Cutting  (Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation)

            Steven Levenkron

 3.  A Bright Red Scream  (Self-mutilation and the language of pain)

            Marilee Strong

 4.  The Luckiest Girl in the World

(A young skater battles her self-destructive impulses)

Steven Levenkron

 5.  Skin Game (a memoir)

            Caroline Kettlewell

 Other Self Injury Books:

 1.  Bodies Under Siege  (Self Mutilation in Culture and Psychiatry)

            Armando Favazza M.D.

 

2.  Bodies Under Siege  (revised edition)

            Armando Favazza M.D.

 

3.  The Scarred Soul (Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence)

Tracy Alderman

 

4.  Understanding Self-Injury (A workbook for Adults)

            Kristy Trautmann, Robin Connors

 

5.  Women who Hurt Themselves (A book of Hope and Understanding)

            Dusty Miller

 

6.  Healing the Hurt Within (Understand and Relieve the Suffering Behind Self-     destructive Behavior

            Jan Sutton  (she is also working on a new book, Because I Hurt)

 

7.  When the Body Is The Target (Self-Harm, Pain and Traumatic Attachments)

            Sharon Klayman Farber

 

8.  Coping With Self-Mutilation (A Helping Book for Teens Who Hurt Themselves)

            Alicia Clarke, Carolyn Simpson

 

9.  Women Living With Self-Injury

            Jane Wegscheider Hyman

 

10.  Crosses (Fiction about two teens struggling with self-injury)

      Shelley Stoer

 Movies:

1.        Secret Cutting

USA Movie

 Hospitals:

      1.      Del Amo Hospital

            National Treatment Center

            23700 Camino del Sol

            Torrance, California 90505

            Phone: 1-800-533-5266

            Phone: (310) 530-1151

            www.delamohospital.com

       2.    S.A.F.E Alternatives Program (Self-Abuse Finally Ends)

            7115 West North Avenue, Suite 319

            Oak Park, IL 60302

            Phone: 1-800-DONT-CUT

            www.selfinjury.com

            Inpatient and partial hospitalization treatment program at

MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois.

      3.     Rock Creek Center

            40 Timberline Drive

            Lemont, IL 60439

            Phone: 1-800-669-2426

            Inpatient and outpatient self-injury treatment

      4.     Butler Hospital

            345 Blackstone Boulevard

            Providence, RI 02906

            Phone: (401) 455-6407