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... Favazza M.D. ... Favazza has lead to greater knowledge about a mysterious and shocking psychological problem called Self Injury (SI), sometimes referred to as Self Mutilation. ... Favazza has pioneered numerous research efforts about SI trying to understand the causes and initiate the discovery of suitable treatment methods for patients who suffer from this horrific problem. ... Favazza has not only conducted many research projects he has also written a book and co-authored another on the subject of SI. ... Favazza is regarded by his colleagues and professional as an expert on the issue of SI. ... Favazza has been engaged in many types of research to gain insight into the world of SI. ... Favazza has not only researched SI as a disease but as a cultural issue. ... Favazza became intrigued by SI after a colleague at a conference asked him to comment on SI from a cultural perspective. At the time he had no such research to reflect back on and found it difficult to comment on SI from a cultural perspective. ... Favazza as he began to gain insight in to an undiscovered world. An example of cultural mutilation can be seen among some aboriginal groups, boy’s penises are sliced open during rites of passage to adulthood (Favazza 1996) and by some African tribal groups, which condemn their young female children to clitoral circumcision. ... One of the most famous self-injurious acts is found in Sophocles’s classic Oedipus Rex. ... Yet another cultural example of self-mutilation (SM) and mutilation can be seen in Stigmatics. ... Favazza began to explore the possibility that some forms of SI are an attempt at self-healing. ... Favazza has applied his research of cultural SI to his understanding of deviant SI. ... Favazza’s research in the clinical aspect of SI lead him to make distinctions between different kinds of SI as well as introduce SI as a disease. ... Favazza an estimated number of people who engage in the act of SI are 750 per 100,000 Americans; that is close to two million people in the United States (Strong & Favazza 2000). Research has shown that the age when a person is most likely to begin to engage in SI is around 14 years old. ... The ratio of boys to girls who self injure is equal among teenagers. ... Although a female is more likely to self injure, a male is often more violent in the acts of SI. The sufferers of SI are often the people whom one would least expect to commit these acts of self-destruction. ... Favazza and other professionals have begun to research deviant SI it has been found to be more comment than originally expected. ... Favazza himself said “Self Injury is probably a bit of an epidemic” (Strong & Favazza 2000). Princess Diana was quoted in a television interview saying that at one point in her misery, she deliberately cut her self on her legs (12/20 1998).
Approximate Word count = 2323
Approximate Pages = 9.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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