Self Injurious Behavior Thesis 2 - Show 22

This is part two of a series of three podcasts on Self Injurious Behavior. This podcast covers the research on the causes of Self Injurious Behavior and Suzanne’s ideas of how Depth Psychology relates to Self Injurious Behavior. These three podcasts are part of a production thesis in the partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from the Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Series of three podcasts in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology.

Podcast 1
Definitions - What it is. What it is not Epidemilogy – Who Does it.

Podcast 2
Etiology – Why people do it.

Podcast 3
Treatment options

Details of Podcast 2

Outline of Series
Warning to Self injurers
Resources for Self Injurers
Our Web site – www.insytworks.com
S.A.F.E – 1-800-DON’T-CUT
Healing House – 310-836-1223
Suzanne’s Working Definition of Compulsive Self Injurious Behavior
The overwhelming compulsion to self-injure severe enough to cause tissue damage. Compulsive Self Injurious Behavior is cloaked in shame, secrecy, and self-loathing.
Narrow Scope
Suzanne’s hypothesis – Compulsive Self Injury is not the problem, but a symptom of an unconscious traumatic wounding of the psyche.
Why people self injure - Etiology

Discussion of Shame, secrecy, self loathing
Difference between impulsive and compulsive
Compulsive – hiding their wounds
Celebrities who self injure
Two reasons why people self injure

Psychosocial
Biological
Psychosocial causes of Self Injury
Sexual abuse
Physical abuse
Attachment disorder
Invalidating Environment
Biological causes of Self Injury - Etiology
Decreased Seratonin
Hyperactive Amygdala
Auto-addictive disorder
Body’s own opiates
Vanderkolk research 1998
Chicken and the egg
Which causes which?
Does the biology cause the behavior or does the behavior cause the biological change?
Other Biological influences

Autism
Severe mental retardation
Example of auto-addictive disorder
Soldiers of antiquity self injuring before battle
Self Injurious Behavior in History
Religion and History

 

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