i just don t like what was there. so i m having black work done over it then i ll have scarification done over the black work, at some point. one or two tattoos, sure. but facial tattoos, ear lobe stretching and ritual scarification. what would make someone go this far? dr. armando favazza has never met or treated meg but says there are common reasons people do this. for example, rebellion and anger, especially towards people in the past who may have harmed you or people who have let you down. dr. armando favazza is author of bodies under siege, considered to be the seminal book on self-mutilation. he s also a practicing psychiatrist. and what happens is that anger, that rebellion lays buried in your unconscious and you get to a point where you can say, i m going to pay them back. i m going to get this tattoo. but meg doesn t see it that way.
out of your chest because you re emotionally challenged. but if you ask me, it s just because i enjoy the art. i enjoy the anatomy. and i wanted something anatomical and but i also like the dark imagery, so i was able to incorporate both. psychiatrist armando favazza has never met or treated joe, but speculates on what might cause him to do this. ever since in the garden of eden, you know, god surgically performed a maneuver on adam to produce eve. surgeons have claimed some sort of kinship with god. surgeons, you want a good surgeon to be narcissistic. i want him to be the captain of the ship, captain of the operating room. rotate a little away.
for them to express who they really are. but who they really are partly comes from being this tattooed. how would a professional psychiatrist analyze this? they re playing out something on their skin. skin is a bulletin board. they re giving a message out. i think they re probably trying to create a new identity or create an identity for themselves. people get tattoos for all the basic same reasons. when someone is born, something dies, going into boot camp, coming out of boot camp, going to war, coming out of war, falling in love, falling out of love, hope, despair. tattoos are markers and they re also markers of inspiration,
because i enjoy the art. i enjoy the anatomy. and i wanted something anatomical and but i also like the dark imagery, so i was able to incorporate both. psychiatrist armando favazza has never met or treated joe, but speculates on what might cause him to do this. ever since in the garden of eden, you know, god surgically performed a maneuver on adam to produce eve. surgeons have claimed some sort of kinship with god. surgeons, you want a good surgeon to be narcissistic. i want him to be the captain of the ship, captain of the operating room. rotate a little away. people may get these sort of tattoos or do things just to fulfill this sense of narcissism that i m so great and here s visual evidence that i m great,