In reviewing the work of Steven Levenkron,Bonner says he is “pleased and enthused” to recommend Levenkron’s book “Cutting” for victims, families and helpers of self mutilators. Bonner describes the book as being in two sections: The Illness and Toward Recovery. Levenkron covers a wide variety of issues such as dysfunctional families, destructive relationships and other contributorsto self cutting behaviours, and is obviously a physician well experienced in treating self harming behaviours.