ArticleSocial theory & health : STH2020
'I couldn't say the words': communicative bodies and spaces in parents' encounters with nonsuicidal self-injury.
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- The lived experiences of primary caregivers supporting adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: a qualitative systematic review and meta-aggregation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Critically Exploring Self-Harm Through Lived Experience Perspectives: A Survivor-Controlled Integrative Review Employing Participatory Methodology.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Review
- Lived experiences of primary caregivers supporting adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury: a qualitative systematic review protocol.BMJ open · 2026Article
- Brief admission by self-referral for adolescents who self-harm: discourses on involvement and responsibility among parents and other significant adults.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Nonsuicidal self-injury and intersubjective recognition: 'You can't argue with wounds'.The Sociological review · 2024Article
- Receiving a gift and feeling robbed: a phenomenological study on parents' experiences of Brief Admissions for teenagers who self-harm at risk for suicide.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- The Link between Sleep Insufficiency and Self-Injury among In-School Adolescents: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey of Multi-Type Schools in Huangpu District of Shanghai, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- "Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Role of Suicidal Motivations in Foreseeing Suicide Risk in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Adolescent Population.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
There is a growing recognition that nonsuicidal self-injury commonly incorporates communicative and interactional dimensions. But regardless of whether we approach self-injury within the terms of deliberate interpersonal communication, it is undeniably something that conveys a significant impact into the social and communicative field between people. As such, it is something that can be approached and analysed as communicative in this more general sense. In this paper, we draw on 13 in-depth qualitative interviews with the parents of people who self-injure, conducted for a larger pilot study, to explore some of these more general communicative processes, spaces and impacts associated with self-injury. By providing a phenomenologically informed examination of parents' experiences, we argue that self-injury is in fact a richly communicative phenomenon, albeit one that cannot be adequately mapped using the traditional sender-receiver communication paradigm. To provide a more nuanced mapping, we look beyond this paradigm to include more subtle, ambiguous, pre-reflexive and bodily forms of communication. Indeed, self-injury offers a particularly powerful case study with which to think through a more complex model of communication, one that connects the interpersonal, intersubjective and intercorporeal levels, and that, as such, is more appropriate to the sociologies of everyday life and embodiment.
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