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
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.