Armando R. Favazza

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1. Marilee Strong

   Author of A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain

2. Kay Redfield Jamison

   Author of An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Touched with Fire, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

3. Brian D. McLaren

   Author of A Generous Orthodoxy: Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist, Anabaptist/Anglican, Methodist, Catholic, Green, Incarnational, Depressed-yet-Hopeful, Emergent, Unfinished Christian, A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey, The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian

4. Dusty Miller

   Author of Women Who Hurt Themselves: A Book of Hope and Understanding

5. Tracy Alderman

   Author of The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence

6. Caroline Kettlewell

   Author of Skin Game: A Memoir

7. Richard Moskovitz

   Author of Lost in the Mirror, 2nd Edition: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder

8. Steven Levenkron

   Author of Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation

9. Karen Conterio

   Author of Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program For Self-Injurers

10. Oliver Sacks

    Author of An Anthropologist on Mars, Seeing Voices

11. Victoria Leatham

    Author of Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, & Survival

12. Michel Foucault

    Author of Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, History of Madness

13. Marjorie Garber

    Author of Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety

14. Richard Davenport-Hines

    Author of Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin

15. Karen Armstrong

    Author of A History of God, The Battle for God, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions

16. American Psychiatric Association

    Author of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV-TR Fourth Edition (Text Revision)

17. Elaine Scarry

    Author of The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

18. Elizabeth Wurtzel

    Author of Prozac Nation

19. Peter Brooks

    Author of Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative

20. Bart D. Ehrman

    Author of Misquoting Jesus, God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer