Recommended Reading
SI related books
-The Scarred Soul by Tracy Alderman-the most useful book that I've read on the subject
-Cutting by Steven Levenkron
-A Bright Red Scream by Marilee Strong
both of the above books are good but one (I can't remember which but I think it's A Bright Red Scream) presents personal SI stories only from patients who were sexually abused/raped. yes, that's one of the reasons some people do it but it's not the only one so I was not able to identify with it so well.
-Skin Game by Caroline Kettlewell-a biography/memoir of a self injurer. for a change, not someone who si's because of some sort past abuse. so I was able to relate better.
-Crosses by Shelley Stoehr-this one is fiction but good. I was able to identify with the main character very well, I found it expressed a lot of what was going on in my head as far as thoughts on SI are concerned.
Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Horror Fiction
by Mercedes Lackey-these are the best books I've ever read
-Magic's Pawn
-Magic's Promise
-Magic's Price
by Stephen King
-It
-The Stand
-The Dark Half
-The Eye's of the Dragon
by Dean Koontz
-The Voice of the Night
-Watchers
-Coldfire
-The Funhouse
by Clive Barker
-The Great and Secret Show-this is a fantastic book
-Everville
-The Damnation Game
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
-The Mists of Avalon
-The Forest House
-Lady of Avalon
by Starhawk
-The Fifth Sacred Thing
By Silver RavenWolf
-Murder at Witches' Bluff
by Shirley Jackson
-We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Wicca
by Scott Cunningham
-Wicca-A guide for the Solitary Practitioner
-Living Wicca
by Starhawk
-Spiraldance
by Silver RavenWolf
-To Ride a Siver Broomstick
-Teen Witch (no i'm not kidding, this is a really good book. she presents the standards in a new way that's great and easy for kids to understand but it also provides adults with a brand new perspective which i found very useful and beneficial)
by Janet Thompson
-Of Witches
by Laurie Cabot
-Power of the Witch
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