1. Pre-History of Self-Harm: From Ancient Castration to Medicinal Bloodletting
2. Morbid Impulse and Moral Insanity: The Emergence of Self-mutilation in Late Nineteenth-century Psychiatry
3. Sexual Self-Mutilation: Masturbation, Masculinity and Self-control in Late Victorian Britain
4. Motiveless Malingerers: Multiple Personality, Attention-seeking and Hysteria around 1900
5. Focal Suicide: Hypersexuality, Masochism and the Death Instinct in Psychoanalysis
6. Delicate Self-Cutting: Schizophrenia and the 'Borderline' in Post-war North America
7. Trigger Happy: Culture, Contagion and Trauma in the Internet Age
Conclusion : Three Narratives of Bodily Harm.