Comprehending suicide : landmarks in 20th-century suicidology /
Drawing on more than 60 years of experience studying suicide, the author has gathered in one book 13 works of the 20th century that offer invaluable insights on suicide and on responses to it. The book begins with a brief history of the phenomenon. Engaging reviews of the landmark publications open...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, DC :
American Psychological Association,
[2001]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- History of suicide : voluntary death in Western culture / Georges Minois
- The savage God : a study of suicide / A. Alvarez
- Suicide : a study in sociology / Emile Durkheim
- Suicide : a sociological and statistical study / Louis I. Dublin
- The thorn in the chrysanthemum : suicide and economic success in modern Japan / Mamoru Iga
- The neurobiology of suicide : from the bench to the clinic / David M. Stoff and J. John Mann
- Man against himself / Karl A. Menninger
- Suicides / Jean Baechler
- The Inman diary : a public and private confession / Daniel Aaron
- Essential papers on suicide / John T. Maltsberger and Mark J. Goldblatt
- Survivors of suicide / Albert C. Cain
- The Samaritans : befriending the suicidal / Chad Varah
- The enigma of suicide / George Howe Colt.