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Myths about suicide / Thomas Joiner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joiner, Thomas, Jr., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide.
- Suicide victims--Psychology.
- Suicide victims.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674056558
- 0674056558
- OCLC:
- 1255221402
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