Transforming Despair into Hope
It is a feature of qualitative research that behind every published paper is a pile of data, fieldnotes, and ideas that never make it into the finished text. Nevertheless, many of these ideas and observations, culled along the way, will have played an important role in shaping the final analysis. It is some of these thoughts and observations, not formally presented in this paper and its companion piece – Towards a new perspective on deliberate self-harm in an area of...