Teenage Suicide Notes: An Ethnography of Self-Harm

by Terry Williams

"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra V., seventeen

Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide is uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231177909
• ISBN13: 9780231177900
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.6"