I remember the first time I saw a client who engaged in “cutting,” or what professionals now refer to as self-injurious behavior or SIB. I was working in a university counseling center in the ...

What's in a Name? In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote the now infamous lines, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." Although Shakespeare ...

Self-embedding is an extreme form of self-injury, in which people (typically adolescents) insert objects into their body parts to deliberately hurt themselves or mutilate their bodies without ...

Cutting, burning, breaking bones and occasionally taking small doses of dangerous chemicals are all acts of self-mutilation or mutilating one's self in attempt to injure, but not to kill. Between ...