Because this book project is different from anything that has ever been published about self-harming behaviour, I would have to describe what it is about in greater detail than I am willing to do at this time. Essentially, the book is about a modern style of fantasy whose seductive themes could be interpreted as metaphors […]
I have been very busy constructing the database of self-harm over the winter and I am now busy working on the book. I have arrived at a point where it is impossible to work on the book without the aid of the database because of the complexity of this phenomenon.
It was necessary to get very […]
Many people like to amuse themselves with the idea that we live in an enlightened age where all the superstitious beliefs and unfounded fears of bygone days have been explained away as being nothing more than meaningless products of imagination. Our secret fears, however, betray a lingering darkness still clinging to the mind that is […]
Our Alice theme character represents a confusing mix of two separate personalities that are separated by a curious looking-glass mystique that exists between consciousness and the unconscious psychic background. The psychic background is where dreams and fantasies originate and take place. Eating disorders also originate in this psychic background owing to a conflict between an […]
This is the reason why I have chosen the Adventure in Wonderland theme to illustrate the nature of anorexia nervosa:
Like the anorexic, Lewis Carroll’s Alice was quite clueless about why she felt compelled to follow the white rabbit down the hole into a maddening underworld adventure. Alice’s story isn’t one of those ancient myths that […]
Most of what I have written in the introduction to my yet unpublished book has to do with what is wrong with the theories produced by modern feel-good-psychology on the problem of self-harming behaviour. Anyone who has anything to do with the problem of self-harm can’t help becoming involved in this Mad Tea Party because […]
Alice and the Queen/Witch/Sphinx are off on another spiritual adventure in Wonderland.
This web site serves as an introduction for my book project about the spiritual nature of self-harming behaviour. The main emphasis of this work is on the problem of understanding the enigmatic nature of anorexia nervosa and cutting.
Click on the link to the right titled […]
Please note that this web-blog is new as of 30 May 2008