When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments

In this comprehensive and insightful work, Dr. Sharon K. Farber provides an invaluable resource for the mental health professional who is struggling to understand self-harm and its origins. Using attachment theory to explain how addictive connections to pain and suffering develop, she discusses various kinds and functions of self-harm behavior.

Sharon Klayman Farber, Ph.D., is a Board Certified Diplomate in clinical social work practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Dr. Farber earned her Ph.D. in clinical social work from New York University, and trained at the Institute for the Study of Psychotherapy and privately in psychoanalysis and child treatment. She is the founder of Mothertalk, a parent guidance group, and Westchester Eating Disorders Consultation Services. In addition to teaching, writing, and supervising, she maintains a general practice with specializations in child and adolescent treatment and treatment of people with eating and other psychosomatic disorders.