Inside a Cutter’s Mind: Understanding and Helping Those Who Self-Injure

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Overview

Cutting is a practice that has crossed age and gender lines. It’s not just depressed teens who inflict injury on themselves―it can be anyone dealing with overwhelming feelings. This book explores the complex issue of cutting without offering any pat or simple fixes. It examines the psychology of, the feelings of anger and despair behind it, and the counseling resources that can help.

This book is a great tool to help those who engage in cutting, pastors who want to learn more, or those who need to understand someone who practices self-injury.

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Explores the complex issue of cutting without offering any pat or simple fixes.
Examines the psychology of, the feelings of anger and despair behind it.
Helps those who engage in cutting and those who need to understand someone who practices self-injury.

Foreword by Daniel G. Amen, MD
Acknowledgments
Introduction: I’ve Got to Do Something
1. Then and Now: A Survey of Self-Injury
2. What Words Cannot Explain: Why and How Self-Injury Begins
3. Misery Loves Company: Environmental and Physical Conditions That Often Accompany Self-Injury
4. Is It All in Their Head?: The Undeniable Influence of Physiology in Self-Injury
5. How Will You Know?: Understanding the Messages Self-Injurers Send
6. What Can I Do?: The Crucial Role You Play in a Self-Injurer’s Recovery
7. Dressing the Wounds: Methods of Treatment and Why They Matter
8. When the Body Is Ravaged, the Soul Cries Out: Exploring the Spiritual Implications of Self-Injury
A Benediction
Appendix A: Finding a Therapist
Appendix B: Additional Resources and Contact Information
Appendix C: Alternatives to Self-Injurious Behavior
Appendix D: A Discussion Guide
Notes
About the Authors

The fallout of an abandoned generation often grieves and overwhelms parents and youth workers. Common sense is not enough to help us understand. We all need the kind of help that Inside a Cutter’s Mind provides. I heartily recommend it to all who want to keep in touch with what many of today’s youth are experiencing.

—Paul Fleischmann, president, National Network of Youth Ministries

This book is a bright light focused on the shadowy, dark phenomenon of self-injury. Using a solid foundation of biblical principles coupled with observations by professional therapists and personal experiences of those who have been there, Jerusha Clark and Dr. Earl Henslin bring a sense of hope to those who struggle with self-harm and a wealth of practical insights to those who seek to offer hope and healing.

—Phil Swihart, PhD, clinical psychologist; director of counseling services, Focus on the Family

If you are looking for help or trying to understand a cutter, you have found your resource. This book lives up to its title and makes sense of what goes on Inside a Cutter’s Mind. Not only will you better understand the behavior but you will also find comfort, encouragement, direction, and most of all hope in this horrific trauma. Even in the midst of the pain, Jerusha and Dr. Henslin help us see the caring touch of the Creator.

—Dave Carder, coauthor of Secrets of Your Family Tree and Torn Asunder: Recovering from Extramarital Affairs