"Updating Durkheim's classic work of the same title, Jason Manning shows that the causes of suicide worldwide are less psychiatric-depression-than social; that conflicts are more likely to become suicidal when they occur in a context of social closeness and social inferiority"--
"Updating Durkheim's classic work of the same title, Jason Manning shows that the causes of suicide worldwide are less psychiatric-depression-than social; that conflicts are more likely to become suicidal when they occur in a context of social closeness and social inferiority"--
"Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on t…
"Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on t…
"In The Perversion of Virtue, suicide researcher Thomas Joiner explores the nature of murder-suicide and offers a unique new theory to explain this nearly unexplainable act: that 'true' murder-suicides always involve the wrongheaded invocation of one of four interpersonal virtue…
"Of the approximately 38,500 deaths by suicide in the U.S. annually, about two percent - between 750 and 800 - are murder-suicides. The horror of the murder-suicide looms large in the public consciousness-they are reported in the media with more frequency and far more sensationa…
"Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge. With attention to Durkheim's founding study of …
Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, 'The Gender of Suicide' presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring it across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge.
"Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge. With attention to Durkheim's founding study of …
The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I.A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselve…
Contains a wealth of case material illuminating many aspects of a harrowing problem. The book provides practical therapeutic insights, and also a model of why adolescents might become suicidal.