Customer Reviews
Profoundly moving, informative and compassionate - By: , 11 Jan 2003 
Healing the Hurt Within is an excellent book. It highlights, through a combination of personal testimonies & research, the deeply rooted emotional pain & life experiences that drive the need to self-injure. Written in plain & jargon-free language, & presented in an easy to read format, this compassionate & sensitive book has much to offer those caught up in the cycle of self-harm, & those seeking to understand & support them. Well worth the money, & well worth a read in my humble opinion.
Not very helpful - By: , 01 Jul 2002 
This book focuses too much on self-injury caused by serious trauma, like sexual abuse. Little or no material on cases where the cause is hard to find.
New insight - By: , 26 May 2002 
This book provides a sensitive review of the experiences of someone who engages in self-harm. Perhaps however it is slightly too focussed on sexual abuse as the (frequent) cause of self harm, & cutting as the (frequent) consequence. Never the less, the author provides excellent information for people working with self-injurers including graphical formulations that cannot help but guide the clinician, & the self-harmer, in understanding the, (their), strange action of self-injury from a much clearer perspective. I certainly recommend it.
Really helped me - By: , 28 Feb 2002 This book provided me (as a cutter) with excellent help, reassurance, understanding & information. It reallly explains why people self-harm, results from surveys of self-harmers, beautiful poems about the subject & exercises for self-harmers to try out.
This book is written with warmth and compassion - By: , 28 Jun 2000 Healing the Hurt Within is written from the heart & Jan Sutton has the gift of boldly taking a controversial & complex subject & rendering it interesting & easily understandable. At the same time this is no cold, clinical or judgemental work, but one written with warmth & compassion. It takes the reader on a journey into the lives & emotions of those who have experienced first hand the traumas that can lead to self-harm & the paths they are exploring in order to recover.
