Non-suicidal Self-injurious Behaviour: Body Manipulation as a Technique for Regulating Affects

Lang A (2025)

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2025

Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media

Edited Volumes: Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology

ISBN: 9783658475406

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-47540-6_5

Abstract

Non-suicidal self-injurious behaviour, such as inflicting superficial cuts on one’s own body with a razor blade or other sharp objects—often referred to by adolescents as “scratching”—or burning the skin with cigarettes, has long since ceased to be an adolescent psychiatric problem. Against the background that scientific research on non-suicidal self-injurious behaviour is nevertheless still predominantly clinically-medically based, this article places non-suicidal self-injury decidedly in the context of a cultural-anthropological approach. In particular, it focuses on the principle of body manipulation as a technique for regulating affects.

Authors with CRIS profile

Anke Lang Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie

How to cite

APA:

Lang, A. (2025). Non-suicidal Self-injurious Behaviour: Body Manipulation as a Technique for Regulating Affects. In Johannes Bilstein, Matthias Winzen, Jörg Zirfas (Eds.), Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology. Springer Science+Business Media.

MLA:

Lang, Anke. "Non-suicidal Self-injurious Behaviour: Body Manipulation as a Technique for Regulating Affects." Pedagogical Anthropology of Technology. Ed. Johannes Bilstein, Matthias Winzen, Jörg Zirfas, Springer Science+Business Media, 2025.

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