Hair: Surviving the FallHAIR: Surviving the Fall is a self-help book for both men and women who suffer from hair loss. Hair is an important and symbolic part of the human body. It characterizes our personality, our personal identity, and our sexuality. Hence, its loss ? for both men and women ? has painful emotional consequences. Dr. Romweber provides historical, psychological and cultural contexts concerning the importance of head hair, and she shares the experiences of twenty diverse research subjects who experienced varying degrees of hair loss. Chapters include: the biological importance of head hair; the public importance of hair and the private effects of its loss; the unconscious meaning of hair; religious beliefs and the matter of hair; the sensual and romantic aspects of hair; grieving the loss of one's hair; nine techniques for coping with hair loss; resolving the trauma of hair loss; past, present and future treatments for the regrowth of hair; wigs, wigbands, hair extensions, toupees, rugs and ot |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF HAIR | 23 |
Chapter Two Wavelengths The Public Importance of Hair | 33 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
alopecia areata alopecia universalis appearance beautiful behavior believed body braids cancer cause chemotherapy comfortable Corson culture Emotional Experience especially experience of hair experiencing hair loss Fashions in Hair fear feel felt female Gentlemen's Quarterly Geraldine Brooks going grow back hair follicles hair growth Hair Restoration Surgery Hair Transplantation hairline hairpiece hairstyle head covering head hair head of hair Hordinsky human hair Ibid important individuals Islamic Lilith Linehan long hair look lose their hair losing his hair Magic male pattern baldness mean Meggan minoxidil Muslim Muslim women painful physical attractiveness problem Propecia Punjabi Rapunzel religious Renata ritual Rogaine Romweber Sadick and Richardson says scalp scalp hair Selena self-esteem sensual sexual sexy shaved Sheila simply society spironolactone spoke style symbol thing tion toupee treatment unconscious Understanding the Emotional veil wearing a wig woman woman's hair wore wrote Yolanda York young