Why Do We Hurt Ourselves? : Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life - Baptiste Brossard

Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?

Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life

By: Baptiste Brossard

Paperback | 14 June 2018

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Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?

What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives?

In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves, sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-injurers and suggests that the answers can be traced to social, more than personal, causes. Self-injury is not a matter of disturbed individuals resorting to hurting themselves in the face of individual weaknesses and difficulties. Rather, self-injury is the reaction of individuals to the tensions that compose, day after day, the tumultuousness of their social life and position. Self-harm is a practice that people use to self-control and maintain order-to calm down, or to avoid "going haywire" or "breaking everything."

More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies.

About the Author

Baptiste Brossard, a French sociologist, is Lecturer at the Australian National University.
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