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It's a troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting and self-harm. But few of us know that it was 150 years ago-with the introduction of institutional asylum psychiatry-that self-mutilation was first described as a category of behavior, which psychiatrists, and later psychologists and social workers, attempted to understand. With care and focus, Psyche on the Skin tells the secret but necessary history of self-harm from the 1860s to the present, showing just how deeply entrenched this practice is in human culture.             Sarah Chaney looks at many different kinds of self-injurious acts, including sexual self-mutilation and hysterical malingering in the late Victorian period, self-marking religious sects, and self-mutilation and self-destruction in art, music, and popular culture. As she shows, while self-harm is a widespread phenomenon found in many different contexts, it doesn't necessarily have any kind of universal meaning-it always has to be understood within the historical and cultural context that surrounds it. Bravely sharing her own personal experiences with self-harm and placing them within its wider history, Chaney offers a sensitive but engaging account-supported with powerful images-that challenges the misconceptions and controversies that surround this often misunderstood phenomenon. The result is crucial reading for therapists and other professionals in the field, as well as those affected by this emotive, challenging act.  

HEALTH & FITNESS --- History, 19th Century. --- History, 20th Century. --- History, 21st Century. --- MEDICAL --- Mental Disorders --- Phlebotomy --- Phlebotomy. --- Schizotypal personality disorder --- Schizotypal personality disorder. --- Selbstbeschädigung. --- Self-Injurious Behavior --- Self-injurious behavior --- Self-injurious behavior. --- Self-mutilation --- Self-mutilation. --- Diseases --- General. --- Clinical Medicine. --- Diseases. --- Evidence-Based Medicine. --- Internal Medicine. --- History. --- Psychology.

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"Before the 19th century, the term ’normal’ was rarely ever associated with human behaviour. Normal was a term used in maths, for right angles. People weren’t normal; triangles were. But from the 1830s, this branch of science really took off across Europe and North America, with a proliferation of IQ tests, sex studies, a census of hallucinations – even a UK beauty map (which concluded the women in Aberdeen were “the most repellent”). This book tells the surprising history of how the very notion of the normal came about, how it shaped us all, often while entrenching oppressive values. Sarah Chaney looks at why we’re still asking the internet: Do I have a normal body? Is my sex life normal? Are my kids normal? And along the way, she challenges why we ever thought it might be a desirable thing to be."--From publisher's website.

Intelligence tests --- Educational tests and measurements --- Ability --- Health --- Psychometrics --- Psychological Tests --- History --- Testing --- history

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In 1939 the British journal, Nursing Mirror, launched a competition to find the "typical" nurse. Over the following weeks, hundreds of nurses submitted a portrait photograph to try and meet the journal's criteria. "This is not a beauty competition in the ordinary sense of the word." The editor stressed, "It is to find the typical nurse - the nurse whose features suggest not merely beauty of line, but professional capacity and human sympathy". Was it even possible to show these things in one simple photograph? The Nursing Mirror judges certainly thought so. The competition winners - and other entries published regularly during 1939 - provide an interesting lens through which to explore inter-war stereotypes of nursing in Britain. From this starting point on the eve of the Second World War, this article looks back through the complex - and often conflicting - representations of British nursing in the inter-war era, from the impact of the Nursing Registration Act of 1919 to the romanticised figure of Edith Cavell and the lingering spectre of the angelic Nightingale nurse. In what ways, it asks, did attitudes to gender and class influence representations of nursing; and how were these attitudes themselves changing during this period? Why was the visual image of the nurse so prominent in portrayals of nursing? And, perhaps most importantly of all, what value did these stereotypes of nursing have for those at the vanguard of a fledgling profession?.

Public opinion. --- Stereotyping.

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