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| 5ae1891 | In one of the few memoirs of self-injury, Caroline Kettlewell describes her recovery in terms of neural pathways--the "groove" worn into her mind, the "wrong turns and dark corridors" marked by her history of cutting. Once she learns how to stand "the awful agony of unhappiness" without reverting to the bodily jolt of broken skin, she changes the map of psychological struggle in her mind. "[E]very time I gut it through and survive," she con.. | Merri Lisa Johnson |