Brossard, Baptiste
Self-Injury: Perspectives on Three Interviews with Teenagers
- 2011.
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This article takes support on a sociological interview led by focused interviews with teenagers. It explores self-injurious behaviors by linking three points: the life stories of the interviewed persons, the concrete modalities of their injuries and the emotional systems which give them meaning. This approach leads to the following idea: self-injury seeks to maintain or restore a given emotional and symbolic order.