Word: levenkron
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Dates: during 1998-1998
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...hurt but the blood seems to voice their pain and also take it away--a "bright red scream," as one self-injurer told Strong, of all they can't communicate. "It's like the old movies where someone was hysterical, someone slapped them and they sighed thank you," explains Levenkron. "We all understand the physical can mediate the emotional...
...marriage had caused her to throw herself down the staircase and cut herself with razors, pen knives and lemon slicers. "You have so much pain inside yourself," she said in an interview with the BBC, "you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you need help." Says Steven Levenkron, a pioneer in the study of anorexia and author of two books on self-injury: "It feels like an epidemic, but it's an epidemic of disclosure. And I credit Diana with that." One sign that the malady is fully emerging into the daylight: it has been the "disease...
...study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told by NIMH officials, as funding for the project dried up. Strong doesn't advocate a particular therapeutic approach--though, like Levenkron, she prefers coddling to the tougher tactics of Conterio and Lader...
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