“A Hideous Torture on Himself”: Madness and Self-Mutilation in Victorian Literature

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Humanities, August 2011

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The Victorians are to blame for assumptions that self-harm is just attention-seeking

The Raw Story, 06 Mar 2017

A photo by Albert Londe of a ‘hysterical’ woman taken around 1890. Wellcome Library, London, CC BY As I know from bitter…

The Victorians are to blame for assumptions that self-harm is just attention-seeking

My Science, 06 Mar 2017

A photo by Albert Londe of a ‘hysterical’ woman taken around 1890. Wellcome Library Dr Sarah Chaney, researcher at QMUL’s…

The Victorians are to blame for assumptions that self-harm is just attention-seeking

Yahoo! News, 06 Mar 2017

As I know from bitter experience, self-harm is often linked to a desire to seek attention.

The Victorians are to blame for assumptions that self-harm is just attention-seeking

The Conversation, 06 Mar 2017

As I know from bitter experience, self-harm is often linked to a desire to seek attention.