A Bright Red Scream by Marilee Strong

A Bright Red Scream by Marilee Strong

Meet Daphne, age sixteen. There are times when she hurts so bad, too deep for tears, that she must shed her own blood to let out some of the hurt. There's Annie, a woman who stopped injuring herself years ago but admits that she would cut again because she loves her scars too much, loves the control they give her over her own body. And Lukas, a forty-three-year old lawyer, describes the powerful, soothing rush he gets from his self-induced wounds: The feeling I get when the blood comes out is better than anything. It's better than drinking, it's better than any drug I've ever taken, it's better than sex.

Why do some people need to inflict pain on themselves? At least two million Americans, and millions more worldwide, are cutters -- notably, the late Princess Diana. Yet, the reasons behind the need to self-mutilate are profoundly complex and largely misunderstood. Marilee Strong shatters the stereotypes and dispels the myths surrounding the phenomenon of self-mutilation and gets to the heart of the matter by way of her subjects. The voices of cutters themselves, combined with Strong's own astute observations, make for an unparalleled exploration of the disorder that has been called the addiction of the nineties.

Marilee Strong is a multi-award-winning journalist who focuses on crime, mental health, and social issues. She's written two earlier books: A Brilliant Red Scream, on the effects of childhood abuse and trauma, and Erased, about a unique criminal and psychological profile of a type of intimate-partner killing. She's also written extensively on themes like child abduction, women in jail, gang violence, hate groups, and sex offender psychological treatment. She received a Pulitzer Fellowship, the school's top accolade, as a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She has won a National Headliner Award and the Society of Professional Journalists Achievement Award, among other awards for writing and reporting. She's appeared on NBC's Dateline, Fox News' On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, the BBC, and a slew of other TV and radio shows around the country, as well as in a number of films and documentaries about the themes of her work.

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ISBN 13	9780670877812
ISBN 10	0670877816
Title	A Bright Red Scream
Author	Marilee Strong
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1998-10-29
Number of pages	256
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.