Newspapers and Magazines

Newspapers

Adventures in the Skin Trade – Marilee Strong reviews Skin Game and Shy Girl.
Colleges help mentally ill students, maintain campus environment – Kansas City Star.
The Cutters – Cape Cod Times. Search the archives for ‘The Cutters’, the articles was published on May 25. 2000.
‘Cutters’ Learn How to Heal Their Scars – Los Angeles Times. Reprinted on Andrew Vachss’ site The Zero. You can also get the article from the LA Times Archive.
Cutting Through the Pain – A story from The Cincinatti Enquirer. Be sure to read the companion article: Reasons vary, but forms of self-mutilation date back centuries.
Daniel looks to escape scars of the past – From the South Coast Register.
Liberty’s Heavy Hand – Mentions self injury in US immigrants. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2001.
Living on the Edge – An article from the october 1997 edition of high school newspaper The North Star.
The Unkindest Cut – San Francisco Chronicle.
The Scar Report – The Village Voice.
Self-Harm — the Damaging Facts – If link doesn’t work, login and search for: Self-harm — the damaging facts (filed: 24/05/2002).
Student ‘cutter’ goes public to help expose self-injury – Amarillo Globe-News.
The Thin Line – From the Pioneer Press.

An Armful of Agony – Newsweek, November 9, 1998. Go to newsweek.com and search the archives for ‘An Armful of Agony’.
Christina Ricci – Scanned from Woman’s Day.
Cutting – Teenmag.com.
Self-Injurious Behavior – Paradigm, fall 2000 edition (Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery).
Self-injurious behavior in children and adolescents: Part I: What is SIB? – Healing Magazine, KidsPeace.
Self-injurious behavior in children and adolescents: Part II: Now what? The treatment of SIB – Healing Magazine, KidsPeace.
Self-Injury — Suicide Attempt or Survival Tool? – Steps for Recovery.
What the Cutters Feel – TIME. Search the archive for ‘What the Cutters Feel’.

Self-Injury: A problem that still carries a stigma, and how people can seek help – An article from the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Mostly describes how the counselors at the school can help the students. Mentions various forms of treatment.
Media influence teens’ self-perception – From the Brigham Young University NewsNet.