retested: Lucille Clifton, "cruelty" (0)
Amanda Young ([personal profile] retested) wrote 2017-02-18 01:27 am (UTC)


Through the act of self-mutilation. . .cutters have "acted out all the familiar roles from childhood: the abandoned child, the physically damaged patient, the abused victim, the (dissociated) witness to violence and self-destructiveness, and finally, the aggressive attacker."

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