Making the cut: The production of 'self-harm' in post-1945 Anglo-Saxon psychiatry.

It might speculatively be argued that ‘self-poisoning’, which is also considered of low ‘lethality’ and has symbolic resonance with attempts to kill oneself, does not emerge so resonantly in the USA due to the psychodynamic context (emphasizing blood and pain); this method is, however, hugely significant in the UK, where psychoanalysis is less popular and established (see Kessel, 1965 ).

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