nearly a decade ago cutting boldly addressed a traumatic psychological disorder now affecting as many as two million americans and one in fifty adolescents more than that it revealed selfmutilation as a comprehensible treatable disorder no longer to be evaded by the public and neglected by professionals using copious examples from his practice steven levenkron traces the factors that predispose a personality to selfmutilation genetics family experience childhood trauma and parental behavior written for sufferers parents friends and therapists cutting explains why the disorder manifests in selfharming behaviors and describes how patients can be helped what we leave behind is a piercing impassioned guide to living a truly responsible life on earth human waste once considered a gift to the soil has become toxic material that has broken the essential cycle of decay and regeneration here awardwinning author derrick jensen and activist aric mcbay weave historical analysis and devastatingly beautiful prose to remind us that lifehuman and nonhumanwill not go on unless we do everything we can to facilitate the most basic process on earth the root of sustainability one beings waste must always become another beings food