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...calling it the "anorexia of the '90s." An estimated 2 million Americans purposely cut or burn themselves, break bones or otherwise mutilate themselves. That figure may even be low, say many experts, judging from the growing number of reports from hospitals, schools and therapists. Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader started S.A.F.E. (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) Alternatives, the nation's only in-patient center for self-injurers, in Chicago in 1985. "We used to be able to check the calls on our hotline number once a week. Now a staff member has to do it every day," says Lader...
...with that." One sign that the malady is fully emerging into the daylight: it has been the "disease of the week" topic on recent episodes of the teen-oriented TV series 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills 90210. And now come two major books: Bodily Harm (Hyperion) by Conterio and Lader, based on their successful treatment program, and A Bright Red Scream (Viking), in which journalist Marilee Strong provides a compelling tour of the trauma and science of self-injury...
WHOM YOU'LL SEE "Artists and scientists, astronauts and Olympic athletes, Presidents and Pulitzer prizewinners, singers and authors," says Linda Lader...
FOUNDED Seventeen years ago, Phil Lader (the current U.S. ambassador to Britain) and his wife Linda were bored by the thought of a quiet Dec. 31 so they invited 60 families to spend New Year's discussing the big issues...
...INVITED If you're not a leader, a celebrity or a friend of the Laders, get to know someone they know. Linda Lader, who chooses the guests, says, "Some are friends, others are recommended. Then there are people we know about who we think are interesting...