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Suicidal : why we kill ourselves / Jesse Bering.
LIBRA HV6545 .B425 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bering, Jesse, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide.
- Physical Description:
- 275 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Why we kill ourselves
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In Suicidal, Bering takes us through the science and psychology of suicide, revealing its cognitive secrets and the subtle tricks our minds play on us when we’re easy emotional prey. Scientific studies, personal stories, and remarkable cross-species comparisons come together to help readers critically analyze their own doomsday thoughts while gaining broad insight into a problem that, tragically, will most likely touch all of us at some point in our lives. -- Adapted from Amazon.com summary.
- Contents:
- The call to oblivion
- Unlike the scorpion girt by fire
- Betting odds
- Hacking the suicidal mind
- The things she told Lorraine
- To log off this mortal coil
- What doesn't die
- Gray matter.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226463322
- 022646332X
- OCLC:
- 1028880709
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