Flesh wounds?: new ways of understanding self-injury

Abstract

My research uses methodological and representational practices from the humanities and arts in order to develop a non-medical understanding of self-injury. The aims of the project are: to use creative practices to promote an accessible person-centred understanding of self-injury, from a holistic, harm-reduction, embodied perspective; to increase points of dialogue between all perspectives involved in and/or affected by self-injury; to illustrate both positive and negative responses to, and interventions in, self-injury and to highlight their impacts for the individuals concerned.