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The scarred body

A personal reflection of self-injury scars

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21724481
AutoresNina Veetnisha Gunnarsson (0000-0001-8948-1055, Jönköping University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen21
Número1
Páginas37-52
Fecha de publicación2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Social Work (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1473-3250 • E-ISSN: 1741-3117
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1473325021990868
OpenAlexW3124619271
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas40

Self-injury is deemed a pathology and a deviant practice that is not socially sanctioned and culturally accepted as soothing and healing the self. The marked female body is also pathologized and perceived as deviant; hence, having self-inflicted scars may easily lead to social stigma, shame, and the need to hide the scars. In this personal reflection I explore how self-inflicted scars can have the same meaning as self-injury to control the self and act as self-expression, and how the marked female body can be a resistance to the cultural idea of femininity. I draw upon my own personal experiences of self-inflicted scars and how these scars have become intertwined with my identity. I have carved or burnt my body in different situations and from different moods in the past, but they are all with me at the present and will be with me in the future. Without the scars, I am not the person that others see me as or I see myself as. I sometimes feel that I would be nothing without my scars

Aesthetics · Art · Femininity · Psychoanalysis · Scars · Self · Shame · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Medicine · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies · Surgery

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Citas por año2,25
Intervalo de citas2022 - 2026 (5)
Velocidad de citacióncurrent
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