Product Description: This text, based on Dr Victoroff's lectures and seminars, describes the phenomenon of suicide as the doctor encounters the event. It offers suggestions regarding how persons and institutions might respond constructively to the tragedy of suicide in general and the youthful suicide in particular...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In recent years, there has been a rise in preadolescent completed and attempted suicides. Though almost unimaginable, suicide is among the top ten causes of death in the 6 - 12 age group. Suicidal ideation is still more prevalent...read more

Product Description: First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: Published simultaneously as v.19, no.1 of: Suicide and life-threatening behavior. Contains papers presented at a workshop (see title) time and place not specified. A broad treatment of basic and clinical research. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Product Description: This book, first published in 1637, was the first full-length treatise on suicide published in English. Originally published in 1988 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, the introduction by Michael MacDonald places the book in the context of attitudes to suicide in its day, as well as showing some of the ways that this theological book is also a study of the psychology and sociology of suicide...read more

Product Description: This volume reflects the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Geological Association of Canada-Mineralogical Association of Canada-Canadian Geophysical Union in Ottawa in 1986, deals with recent research projects on carbonatites which have been initiated in the last few years...read more

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The most exciting revision to date! Bartollas continues to provide a comprehensive, cutting-edge overview of all aspects of juvenile delinquency with a sociological focus. Readers will rejoice in the new large-format paperback design at a lower price, and the free Voices of Delinquency supplement that comes with every copy of the book! For anyone interested in sociology, criminology, criminal justice, or juvenile delinquency. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume presents 38 papers exploring areas such as the historical, social and psychodynamic aspects of suicide; diagnostic considerations; treatment modalities; and the rationale, organization and operation of several types of suicide prevention programs.

Product Description: This bibliographic essay is intended as a contribution to the history of ideas in the broadest sense and as an aid to new studies on suicide in early modern Europe.

Years after she flees the hometown that blamed her for a tragedy, Rachel Huber returns to care for her ailing grandmother and is forced to confront the hostile neighbors who still hate her. Original.

Product Description: This DVD presentation covers many of the emotions and reactions one will have after a loved one completes suicide. Beryl Glover, Author of The Empty Chair, who has experienced the deaths of her brother and daughter by suicide, and Glenda Stansbury of In-Sight Books, visit about many of the complex issues a suicide survivor encounters...read more

Product Description: In this groundbreaking book, David H. Rosen, M.D., offers depressed individuals, their families, and therapists a lifesaving course in healing the soul through creativity. This is a book about transforming depression and its powerful pull toward suicide into a meaningful alternative...read more

On November 12, 2002, at the age of twenty-two, my son Mitchell committed suicide. His sudden and unexpected death sent me reeling down a path I needed to travel if I ever wanted to escape the forest of grief and loss in which I found myself. This book recounts my journey to come to terms with the death of my son. The path I started down-to fulfill a promise I had made to my son while he was alive, to find answers to the mental problems he suffered-took me places I had not anticipated. The path became a network of four intersecting paths, and my journey took me far beyond the death of a son to the human condition where we are governed by forces, both internal and external, over which we have little control and little understanding. Intricately connected, the four paths explored in this book are: 1) the autobiographical: the story of my life with my son Mitchell as we struggled with the mental problems that eventually led to his suicide. 2) the diagnostic: the various diagnostic tools available to psychiatrists, which illustrate the level of knowledge in the field and show some of the failings of our present approach to mental disorders. 3) historical fiction: narrative accounts of the lives and deaths by suicide of both historical and fictional characters, including the son of Queen Isabela of Spain; Meriwether Lewis; Vincent Van Gogh; Miguel, a slave working at the Count of Valenciana's silver mine, La Boca del Infierno, in 18th-century Mexico; and Michele, a passenger on the Titanic. By telling these stories, sometimes in the first person, I found a way to express my own anguish and pain, something I could not do directly, as well as a way to explore further my relationship with my son and my son's complexity and fullness as a person. 4) scientific explanation of how the brain works: a theory of how the brain works, explaining in detail how mental images and thoughts are formed and travel through the nervous system, how we live in a world of illusions, and how mental illness can be explained in these terms. These four paths are intricately connected and reinforce each other in the book. The diagnostic explains in technical terms what the autobiographical recounts; the autobiographical recounts events which help to explain the complexities and subtleties of human behavior within the context of how the brain works; the historical fiction ties into the autobiographical elements and the diagnostic. The book also confronts the issue of suicide, itself. It answers that elusive question: Why do people commit suicide? The book presents a personal, honest, biographical testimonial of the experience of the suicide of a son. The book speaks from experience, not some abstract philosophical point of view. The organization and contents of the book are unique, a weaving together of four distinct yet related subjects: the suicide of a son, the classification of mental illnesses, narratives of historical fiction, and a theory of how the brain works. The most outstanding feature of this book is that it presents for the first time, to my knowledge, a comprehensive theory of the brain that explains mental disorders such as dementia, delirium, depression, manic depression and schizophrenia. For the first time, suicide is placed in a scientific context, and why and how it happens is explained. In particular, the brain theory here is presented in a simplified form accessible to most, particularly because of the anecdotes and stories that help illustrate how the brain functions and malfunctions. The book also deals with other related subjects: the importance of love in our lives; the possibilities of past lives; how to deal with grief and loss; the possible reasons for the rise of suicide rates in industrialized nations; the failures of the system to cure and prevent suicide and other mental disorders; and possible directions that therapies and medications might explore in the future. The writing is forceful and direct.

Product Description: Finally a book that explains suicide, a must read for the survivors of suicide who want to understand why suicide happens and it also should prove extremely helpful for anyone suffering mental disorders. The material in this book should be incorporated into the curriculum of psychology and psychiatry because suicide is such a vital topic hardly covered in medical schools...read more

Product Description: Finally a book that explains suicide, a must read for the survivors of suicide who want to understand why suicide happens and it also should prove extremely helpful for anyone suffering mental disorders. The material in this book should be incorporated in

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Product Description: Lifelines addresses the whole school community by providing suicide awareness resources for school administrators, faculty and staff members, parents, and students. Information about suicide and the role of students in suicide prevention is presented in easy-to-follow lessons...read more