Myths about suicide
Joiner, Thomas
Myths about suicide - New York Harvard University Press 2010 - 288p. ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : our most basic terror and our most tragic thoughts -- The suicidal mind -- Suicidal behavior -- Causes, consequences, and subpopulations -- Conclusion : stigma : the future of a partial illusion.
We need to get it in our heads that suicide is not easy, painless, cowardly, selfish, vengeful, selfmasterful, or rash; that it is not caused by breast augmentation, medicines, "slow" methods like smoking or anorexia, or, as some psychoanalysts thought, things like masturbation; that it is partly genetic and influenced by mental disorders, themselves often agonizing; and that it is preventable and treatable.
9780674048225
2009039732
GBB006837 bnb
015468232 Uk
Suicide.
Suicide victims--Psychology.
HV6545 / .J648 2010
362.28 / JO-M
Myths about suicide - New York Harvard University Press 2010 - 288p. ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : our most basic terror and our most tragic thoughts -- The suicidal mind -- Suicidal behavior -- Causes, consequences, and subpopulations -- Conclusion : stigma : the future of a partial illusion.
We need to get it in our heads that suicide is not easy, painless, cowardly, selfish, vengeful, selfmasterful, or rash; that it is not caused by breast augmentation, medicines, "slow" methods like smoking or anorexia, or, as some psychoanalysts thought, things like masturbation; that it is partly genetic and influenced by mental disorders, themselves often agonizing; and that it is preventable and treatable.
9780674048225
2009039732
GBB006837 bnb
015468232 Uk
Suicide.
Suicide victims--Psychology.
HV6545 / .J648 2010
362.28 / JO-M