Books

  • The Scarred Soul:  Understanding & Ending Self-inflicted Violence, Alderman, T. (1998)  , CA, New Harbinger Publications.
  • The Body Project:  An Intimate History of American Girls, Brumberg, J. (1997) , New York:  Random House.
  • Bodily Harm:  The breakthrough healing program for self-injurer, Conterio, K., Lader, W., Ph.D. & Bloom, J. (1998). s, New York:  Hyperion.
  • Daño Corporal:  El innovador programa tratamiento para quienes se autolesionan, Conterio, K., Lader, W., Ph.D., M.Ed. & Bloom, J.  (2008)  , Chicago:  Virgin Ink Press.
  • Bodies Under Siege:  Self-mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Society, Favazza, A. (1996). (2nd edition) Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic, Farber, Sharon K.  Ph.D,  (2000, 2002)
  • No Time to Say Goodbye:  Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One, Fine, C., (1997) , Doubleday
  • Self-Injury in Youth, Heath, Nancy and Nixon, Mary (2008),  Routledge, NY, NY
  • Helping Teens Who Cut, Hollander, Michael (2008).
  • Women Living With Self-injury, Hyman, J., (1999).    Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.
  • Female Perversions, Kaplan, L. (1991),  New York:  Doubleday. See especially Ch. 11, pp 362-407.
  • I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me, Kreisman, J., Straus, H. (1989), Los Angeles:  The BodyPress.
  • Cut, McCormick, P., (2000). North Carolina:  Front Street.  (Fiction)
  • Women Who Hurt Themselves, Miller, D. (1994), New York:  Basic Books.
  • Picking Up The Pieces, Nakhla, F., & Jackson, G. (1993),  New Haven:  Yale University Press.
  • Beyond the Razor’s Edge, Redheffer, J. & Brecht, S. (2005), Illinois:  Virgin Ink Press.
  • Soul Murder:  The Effects of Childhood Abuse and Deprivation, Shengold, L. (1989), N.Y.: Fawcett Columbine.
  • Go Ask Ogre, Siana, J. (2005), Los Angeles:  Process
  • The Bright Red Scream, Strong, M. (1998),  N.Y.:  Viking Press.
  • Healing the Hurt Within, Sutton, J (2005), Oxford, IRE, U.K:  How To Books.
  • Comes the Darkness Comes the Light, Vega, V. (2007), N.Y.: AMACOM
  • Treating Self-injury: A Practical Guide, Walsh, B. (2005)  N.Y. Guilford Press.
  • The Cutting Edge, Wilson, Jess (2008), Authentic

Books My Therapist is Reading

  • Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
  • The Book of Joy by the Dali Lama and Desmond Tutu
  • Becoming by Michelle Obama
  • More Than A Body by Lindsey Kite and Lexie Kite
  • The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
  • I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
  • How to be a Conscious Eater by Sophie Brown
  • Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
  • The Astrology of You and Me; How to Understand and Improve Every Relationship in Your Life by Gary Goldschneider
  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle
  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
  • The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle
  • The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
  • Rising Strong by Brené Brown
  • Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
  • The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
  • Girls and Sex by Peggy Orenstein
  • You’re Wearing That?; Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
  • Stop Walking on Eggshells (Second Edition) by Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger
  • Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
  • Healing Self-Injury by Janis Whitlock and Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson
  • The Body Myth by Margo Maine and Joe Kelly
  • Awaken the Spirit Within by Rebecca Rosen
  • Spirited by Rebecca Rosen
  • Becoming Nicole by Amy Ellis Nutt
  • Untangled by Lisa Damour
  • Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist
  • Living With Intent by Mallika Chopra
  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Journal Articles

  • Brown, M., Comtois, K. & Linehan, M. (2002 Reasons for Suicide Attempts and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 111(1): 198-202.
  • Courtois, C.A. (2004) Complex Trauma, Complex Reactions:  Assessment and Treatment.  Psychotherapy:  Theory, Research, Practice, Training. 41(4): 412-425.
  • Glover, H., Lader, W., Walker-O’Keefe, J., Goodnick, P. (1997).  Numbing scale scores in female inpatients diagnosed with self-injurious behavior, dissociative identity disorder, and major depression.  Psychiatry Research 70, 115-123.
  • Glover, H., Lader, W., Walker-O’Keefe, J. (1995) Vulnerability scale scores in female patients diagnosed with self-injurious behavior, dissociative identity disorder, and major depression. Psychological Reports 77, 987-995
  • Hays, L.M., Juvenile Suicide in Confinement:  A National Survey.  National Center on Institutions and Alternatives. Mansfield, MA.
  • Favazza, A., & Conterio, K. (1988) The plight of chronic self-mutilators.  Community Mental Health Journal, 24, 1, 22-30
  • Favazza, A. & Conterio, K. (1989) Female habitual self-mutilators.  Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavia, 79, 3, 283-289.
  • Favazza, A.R, DeRosear, L., & Conterio, K. (1989) Self-mutilation and eating disorders.  Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 19, 352-361.
  • Farber, S. (2005). Free Association Reconsidered: The Talking Cure, The Writing Cure. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry. 33, 2: 247-273.
  • Farber, S. (2016). Unresolved Grief Disguised as Self-Injury: The Message from Silver Linings Playbook. ATTACHMENT: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, .10, 2:.132-151..
  • Gratz, K.L., Conrad, S.D., Roemer, L. (2002) Risk factors for deliberate self-harm among college students.  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 72(1): 128-140.
  • Lader, W. (2006) Working with clients who self-injure.  Counselor:  The Magazine for Addiction Professionals. , v.7, n.5, pp.12-17.
  • Lader, W. (2006) A look at the increase in body-focused behaviors.  Paradigm Magazine. Vol 11(1) & Vol. 9 (4).
  • Muehlenkamp, J.(2005). Self-injurious behavior as a separate clinical syndrome. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 75(2):324-333
  • Shaw, S.N. (2002). Shifting Conversations on Girl’s and Women’s Self-Injury:  An Analysis of the Clinical Literature in Historical Context. Feminism & Psychology. 12(2): 191-219.
  • Stanley, B., Gameroff, M., Michalsen, B.,& Mann,J. (2001) Are Suicide Attempters Who Self-Mutilate a Unique Population? Am J Psychiatry. 158:427-432.
  • Whitlock, J.L., Lader, W., Conterio, K. (in press).  The role of virtual communities in self-injury treatment:  Clinical considerations.  Journal of Clinical Psychology/In Session.