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P s y c h o l o g y Self-Mutilation by Carrie Mason PSYCH 2301: General Psychology. Understanding and predicting human behavior is a goal of psychological research. Carrie’s assignment was to read and write about a professional research article on a psychological topic of interest to her. The article Carrie chose uses a qualitative research model. Carrie’s written exploration of this article and explanation of how the research model was used to isolate psychological variables of self-mutilators interviewed is scientifically descriptive and objective. Yet, she masterfully personalizes the information by an anonymous reference to a friend who used to self–mutilate. Carrie’s description of this article and its conclusions encompass the essence of how psychological research of human beings begins and develops. Renee M. Fauria After searching through several topics I finally decided to write about self-mutilation. I am interested in many different discussions but this particular article caught my eye. This article explains an investigation done to understand self-mutilation and the reasons behind repeating this disturbing behavior. I picked this article because I cannot picture harming myself in such a way that makes me feel pleased or relieved from my problems. I would like to understand why people turn to inflicting pain on themselves to make pain disappear; I cannot make any sense of this. Researchers chose a qualitative design because it is useful when dealing with the biased temperament of human existence (Moyer, 2007). The purpose of this study was to figure out why people cause themselves physical pain to get rid of their internal pain. Researchers are trying to reduce the number of individuals with this desire. They hypothesize that this issue can be taken care of once they find out the aspiration behind it all and look at the person’s point of view with an open mind. Researchers did not assume anything other than the obvious, that this action somehow makes their pain vanish in a way that others do not comprehend. The theory is that if this problem is not resolved soon it will continue to grow rapidly in young teens. This study consisted of gathering a select few people that had a history of self-mutilation but were not hospitalized and 7 9 W r i t i n g A c r o s s t h e C u r r i c u l u m
D o c u m e n t e d E s s a y were comfortable talking about their experiences. All of the information was collected from spring 2005 to spring 2006 when researchers interviewed the group of people chosen. They asked about the conditions of their experience, explaining the incident in detail and answering some questions, and then looking back on the importance of what occurred. They then went into deep conversation with each person and let them share whatever else they wanted to talk about or what they felt was significant for the researchers to have knowledge of. They audio-taped some of the conversations and then went back and compared each of them to evaluate and examine everything talked about. As they looked through each of the interviews they began to see similarities in each student’s experience. All of the people had family issues and many of them learned how to “cut” themselves because of their friends or people at school referring it to them as a solution to their problems. At the beginning most of them were scared to create that first cut and finally just did it without thinking. Some of them said that they did it to get everything out of their system, for instance when they became angry, instead of yelling or inflicting pain on others they would take it out on themselves. Others used it as a controlling factor when they felt that they were not in control of anything else in their lives. One of the boys said that when he cut himself and saw the blood it took him into his own little world full of puddles of blood. He was happier there. It became a way of living, helping them avoid their problems, crying, and showing any type of emotion. Everything was great until people started finding out about their way of coping with life. People would start telling them how terrible it was and their parents/friends would yell at them to stop. The yelling accomplished nothing, it made them feel worse and desire to harm themselves more to forget about it. Part of the reason for kids doing this was to get attention, positive attention from somebody who cared about them and would talk to them instead of badger them about how awful they were for doing such a thing. The result of this experiment was that all of these people just needed someone to talk to who cared about them and listened to what they had to say. They all had problems that they did not know how to deal with or properly handle. Instead of talking to V o l u m e I V : F a l l 2 0 0 8 8 0
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