Suicide

An exploration of the motivations, characteristics, and psychology of suicide Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians best plan and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients who are giving up on themselves? Suicide, its...

What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same time as he kills and maims the people around him? Does suicide or...

Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as...

Argues that a range of behaviors such as murder-suicide, terrorism, and mass shootings are better understood as motivated by suicidal impulses than by homicidal ones Mass shooters often display behaviors that strongly mirror the warning signs for...

This book, first published in 1637, was the first full-length treatise on suicide published in English. Originally published in 1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, the introduction by Michael MacDonald places the...

Although school mental health specialists already understand that suicide and self-injury among students represents a significant and growing concern, emerging data challenges traditional perceptions about suicide risk in schools. Students of all ages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807009598Author Alvin F. PoussaintFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm...

Perspectives on a Young Woman's Suicide is a unique and updated analysis of a diary left behind by "Katie," a young woman who took her own life. By drawing on clinicians, researchers, survivors of suicide loss, and those closest to Katie, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788184007428Author Anjali ChabbriaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Ebury PressPublisher Penguin Random House India

In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist script and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781032848952Author Raymond JackFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Taylor & Francis LtdPublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781967751754Author Carl JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint ErisPublisher Eris

Integrating Narrative Identity in Suicidology examines the pivotal role of stories in forming our identities and how, when those stories break down, suicidality can emerge.

Attempted suicide began to increase inexorably in western societies following World War II. In Britain, it reached epidemic proportions in 1976 when 120,000 cases were reported. More accurately termed “self-poisoning” as the majority of cases involve...