Self-Injury: When Pain Feels Good (Resources for Changing Lives)

This is a very brief book on Self Injury, the title a little misleading regarding pain feeling good. That part misses the point. The book does say there are many reasons why someone would choose SI as a coping mechanism. The book promotes compassion and alternative messages for Self-Injury (SI)such as : encouraging self-love, Christ-like love and utilyzing scripture for direct communication between self and God, rather than self-inflicted violence. This book is a good intro book for persons of faith who struggle with this issue; and this book can be a good book for other persons of faith who may be in a supportive role, helping friends or loved ones who struggle with SI. More needs to be written from a Christian, compassionate perspective that is more in depth. Robin Connors books and Walsh's new book on Treating Self Injury are much more thorough and better, tho without the religious perspective.

As the very first Christian resource on self-injury, this booklet accomplished a lot: it brought the issue to light for Christians. As the first resource that could've set the standard and as a potential tool for healing, this booklet falls drastically short. The author writes from a biblical-counseling perspective (the perspective that thinks all the answers to all life's problems can be directly found within the pages of the Bible) and ignores decades, if not centuries, of psychological research.While the booklet accurately assesses the reasons WHY people give for wanting to self-injure, it reduces their reasons to one: it's all about God. On some level, that may be true, but many things point directly to things in our past. Once we recognize what causes us to act in certain ways, only then can we begin utilizing God's help to overcome our faulty behaviors. And this help can come in many forms: Bible reading, medication, prayer, counseling, talking with family and friends, etc. Prayer and Bible reading are not, as the author suggests, the ONLY answer; they are a PART of the answer.For a better introductory booklet, read "Cutting: Self-Injury and Emotional Pain" (InterVarsity Press). For full-length Christian treatments of the issue, read Jerusha Clark's "Inside a Cutter's Mind," Jan Kern's "Scars That Wound, Scars That Heal," or Marv Penner's upcoming "Hope and Healing for Kids Who Cut."

Creates understanding and/or empathy.

I lead a To Write Love On Her Arms group, and this allows us to bring about awareness to these kinds of issues, It was just what I was looking for.

Good insight

Purchased by a college as a library resource for students upon request of the Biblical Counseling Dept Chair

This book was great. The book in great condition . Thank u

I would higly recommend this pamphlet to anyone seeking help for themselves or others who need help in this area.

Very use - Great Christian Resource for any denomination.. Edward Welch is very gifted I would highly recommend his work.

Questo è un testo scritto da un pastore protestante e quindi l'argomento viene trattato dal punto di vista di un credente.Non solo è scritto bene ed in modo molto semplice proprio per avvicinare "la comunità dei fedeli" a questo fenomeno e farlo comprendere e non giudicarne i protagonisti (self-injurers) ma è anche scritto da una persona che mostra di conoscere il problema e, nelle poche pagine di cui il libro è composto, riesce, punto per punto a dare informazioni utili per capire un fenomeno tanto "destabilizzante" per chi ci si trova di fronte per la prima volta.Anche questo libro è in inglese. Ben scritto! Decisamente consigliato a chi non conosce il self-injury e a chi essendo credente si sente in dovere di aiutare il prossimo senza giudicarlo.