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Title: Skin Game : A Memoir by Caroline Kettlewell ISBN: 0-312-26393-7 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 07 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A very good read
Comment: My mother got me this book a few months ago to help me understand self-mutilation better. As soon as I started it, I began to realize that I loved it. Kettlewell was able to express her emotions very well. I loved the way she expressed her feelings. It can be a bit graphic in parts (i.e. describing the way it looked and felt to cut), but it's definitely something that self-mutilators and their friends should read.
Rating: 5
Summary: A verbalization of hard to explain feelings
Comment: It's actually quite funny how I came across this book. I was at the Goodwill looking for old records and this book just happened to catch my boyfriends eye and he showed it to me. I bought it that day for $2. I read it the next night, I read it all that night. Caroline Kettlewell was able to explain her feelings, something I have never been able to do when it comes to depression, eating disorders and self-mutilation. My boyfriend has often asked me to explain how I feel but I haven't been able to find the words. Caroline Kettlewell found the words. She takes a mysterious and often mis-judged topic and gives it humanity. She sheds light on the lives of self-mutilators- they are not crazy people. There is such a stigma attached to depression, eating disorders, self-mutilation etc., "Skin Game" helps clear those stereotypes away by introducing you to a young girl with a otherwise healthy lifestyle and shows you what happens. EVERYONE should read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: An important book as well as a great read!
Comment: I came across this book randomly in a second hand store but it struck me and I took it home and read it in it's entirety that night. While some reviewers have felt that Caroline Kettlewell was gloryifying her cutting I disagree. The way she wrote about it expressed how she felt at the time she cut. It was a wonderful way to overcome her other problems, to her, while she knew it was wrong, it was still a blessing. I have been struggling with depression for most of my life and I still have to fight to keep from cutting. In reading this book I felt so much less alone than ever before.
Something I feel is important about this book is that it is a first hand account. Caroline Kettlewell gives information on cutting that is scientifically based but it is only to give insight to her experience. So much of society had misconceptions about people struggling with depression, cutting, and eating disorders among other mental diseases and illness' that I find it very important for people to read about a real live person. Give a person to go with the disease. So many sufferers are defined by their problems and "outsiders" can't see past that.
Caroline Kettlewell also happens to have a degree in English which makes this book an extremely pleasant read. It is well written and while it does include the science behind the psychology it is in understandable terms; you don't feel like you're reading a text book. The personal account of a disease starting in preadolescence until adulthood and how it was overcome gives hope to sufferers and a new point of view to their friends and families. A MUST read.
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Title: A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain by Marilee Strong ISBN: 0140280537 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Cut by Patricia McCormick ISBN: 0439324599 Publisher: Scholastic Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron ISBN: 0393319385 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Beauty Queen by Linda Glovach ISBN: 006205161X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 31 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America: A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel ISBN: 1573225126 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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