Profoundly moving, informative and
compassionate
January 11, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from Northern
Ireland
Healing the Hurt Within is an excellent book.
It highlights, through a combination of personal testimonies and research,
the deeply rooted
emotional pain and life experiences that drive the need to self-injure.
Written in plain and jargon-free language, and presented in an easy to
read format, this compassionate and sensitive book has much to offer those
caught up in the cycle of self-harm, and those seeking to understand and
support them. Well worth the money, and well worth a read in my humble
opinion.
Not very helpful, June 30, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from Norway
This book focuses too much on self-injury caused by serious trauma, like
sexual abuse. Little or no material on cases where the cause is hard to
find.
New insight, May 25, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from UK
This book provides a sensitive review of the
experiences of someone who engages in self-harm. Perhaps however it is
slightly too focussed on sexual abuse as the (frequent) cause of self
harm, and cutting as the (frequent) consequence. Never the less, the
author provides excellent information for people working with
self-injurers including graphical formulations that cannot help but guide
the clinician, and the self-harmer, in understanding the, (their), strange
action of self-injury from a much clearer perspective. I certainly
recommend it.
Really helped me, February 28, 2002
Reviewer: lwk2001 from England
This book provided me (as a cutter) with
excellent help, reassurance, understanding and information. It really
explains why people self-harm, results from surveys of self-harmers,
beautiful poems about the subject and exercises for self-harmers to try
out.
This book is written with warmth
and compassion
June 28, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Wales
Healing the Hurt Within is written from the
heart and Jan Sutton has the gift of boldly taking a controversial and
complex subject and rendering it interesting and easily understandable. At
the same time this is no cold, clinical or judgemental work, but one
written with warmth and compassion. It takes the reader on a journey into
the lives and emotions of those who have experienced first hand the
traumas that can lead to self-harm and the paths they are exploring in
order to recover.
A great book for self-injurers with
eating disorders January 22, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Newcastle,
England
Healing the Hurt Within is an ideal book for
those who self injure, particularly those who also have an eating disorder
or alcohol problem. Sutton deals with what is a delicate subject with
great sensitivity. The book is particularly easy to read, with a number of
contributions from self-injurers, including their poetry. I believe that
this is a book that could change lives, if only more people knew about it.
Excellent, insightful, readable- and British
June 1, 1999
Reviewer: A reader from London
It took me a while to find this excellent book
on self-injury, because Amazon online have not given it a subject link as
they have the other books on self-mutilation. Very similar to Tracy
Alderman's excellent self help book for people who hurt themselves, the
exercises in Jan Sutton's book are less threatening and easier to
complete, and she relates self-injury to other self destructive
behaviours. Many people struggle with more than one self destructive
coping mechanism, alternating between ED behaviour and cutting, for
instance, which makes Sutton's views especially interesting. Great to have
a British list of contacts and resources, and wonderful to have a book
that informs and doesn't condescend.
A
Must-Read for Self-Injurers