According to Adler and Adler self injury is being demedicalized and called deviance.
This is a situation that people resort to when they are battling certain internal issues. They resort to self harm as a way of dealing with teir crisis.
What the author means is that instead of referring to it as deviance it should be regarded as a medical condition.
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