You still feel different: The experience and meaning of women's self-injury in the context of a lesbian or bisexual identity

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 70-84

  Alexander, Natasha ^a,c   Clare, Linda ^b  

^a Newham Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Newham Comm Hlth Team People LD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bisexual; Gender role expectations; Identity; Interpretative phenomenological analysis; Lesbian; Self injury

Indexed keywords

EID: 10944224461     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.764     Document Type: Article

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