Author: Edwin S. ShneidmanPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Clues to Suicide
Author: Edwin S. ShneidmanPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Clues to Suicide
Author: Edwin S. ShneidmanPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Clues to suicide
Author: Edwin S. ShneidmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Suicide
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Suicide Notes
Author: Antoon A. LeenaarsPublisher: New York : Human Sciences Press
ISBN:
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Psychology of Suicide
Author: Edwin S. ShneidmanPublisher: Jason Aronson
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This revised edition is designed for mental health practitioners, all of whom must at one time or another deal with a crisis of suicide. It argues that in practically every case, suicide need not occur. unnecessary.
Elder Suicide
Author: Stephen M. MarsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871015402
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Definition of Suicide
Author: Edwin ShneidmanPublisher: Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN: 146162813X
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Shneidman presents basic ideas of the common characteristics of suicide. He offers a fresh definition of the phenomenon, which includes direct implications for preventive action.
November of the Soul
Author: George Howe ColtPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743282027
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge, Colt provides moving case studies to offer insight into all aspects of suicide -- its cultural history, the latest biological and psychological research, the possibilities of prevention, the complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the effects on suicide's survivors. Presented with deep compassion and humanity, November of the Soul is an invaluable contribution not only to our understanding of suicide but also of the human condition.
Reducing Suicide
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309169437
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Every year, about 30,000 people die by suicide in the U.S., and some 650,000 receive emergency treatment after a suicide attempt. Often, those most at risk are the least able to access professional help. Reducing Suicide provides a blueprint for addressing this tragic and costly problem: how we can build an appropriate infrastructure, conduct needed research, and improve our ability to recognize suicide risk and effectively intervene. Rich in data, the book also strikes an intensely personal chord, featuring compelling quotes about people's experience with suicide. The book explores the factors that raise a person's risk of suicide: psychological and biological factors including substance abuse, the link between childhood trauma and later suicide, and the impact of family life, economic status, religion, and other social and cultural conditions. The authors review the effectiveness of existing interventions, including mental health practitioners' ability to assess suicide risk among patients. They present lessons learned from the Air Force suicide prevention program and other prevention initiatives. And they identify barriers to effective research and treatment. This new volume will be of special interest to policy makers, administrators, researchers, practitioners, and journalists working in the field of mental health.
The Suicide Index
Author: Joan WickershamPublisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547350740
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: “Wickersham has journeyed into the dark underworld inside her father and herself and emerged with a powerful, gripping story.” —The Boston Globe One winter morning in 1991, Joan Wickersham’s father shot himself in the head. The father she loved would never have killed himself, and yet he had. His death made a mystery of his entire life. Who was he? Why did he do it? And what was the impact of his death on the people who loved him? Using an index—the most formal and orderly of structures—Wickersham explores this chaotic and incomprehensible reality. Every bit of family history, every encounter with friends, doctors, and other survivors, exposes another facet of elusive truth. Dark, funny, sad, and gripping, at once a philosophical and a deeply personal exploration, The Suicide Index is, finally, a daughter’s anguished, loving elegy to her father.