Self-Injury

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Clay Tucker-Ladd

Psychologist Clay Tucker-Ladd, PhD is author of the online book Psychological Self-Help - formerly at http://mentalhelp.net, now at
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By Clay Tucker-Ladd

Published on 10/21/2006

In the kinds of self-injury cases I am concerned with here, there frequently is some very hurtful and disturbing condition in which the tendency to self-injure develops. You don't usually start with a method to hurt yourself; you start off with horrible circumstances and psychologically painful thoughts.