Brown, blond or red, short or long, attached or left free on the shoulders… Cited among the first elements to describe others or oneself, the hair reveals us.
“You can shave them, sculpt them, color them… They always grow back.
Representing, perhaps with the nails, one of the rare parts of the body that one can modify in a non-permanent way, they make it possible to stage oneself, to express something of oneself, of one's culture, of one's gender, of his social status”
, analyzes the psychiatrist Jean-Christophe Seznec, author of
I stop tearing my hair out.
Treating trichotillomania
(PUF, 2013).
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