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How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying To Kill Me
by Susan Rose Blauner  Publisher Comments The statistics on suicide are staggering. According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 1997 in the USA more teenagers and young adults died from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia...
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After Suicide
by John H. Hewett Publisher Comments "For the individual in the throes of responding to the....suicide of a loved one, this book provides valuable insight into the experience. This kind of cognitive knowledge can actually alleviate suffering by being a reliable guide through the process".---...
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield Jamison Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind: the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, with a particular focus on its terrible pull on the young. Night Falls Fast is both compelling and timely: in the United States and across the world...
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Protecting Psychiatric Patients and Others from the Assisted-Suicide Movement: Insights and Strategies
by Barbara A. Olevitch Publisher Comments Shocked by the fact that, in the Netherlands, psychiatric patients are considered potentially appropriate candidates for physician-assisted suicide, Olevitch examines the research and data and finds that, even in the United States, the situation is...
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Suicide the Forever Decision
by Paul G Quinnett Publisher Comments For those thinking about suicide, and for those who know, love, or counsel them, this book discusses the social aspects of suicide, the right to die, anger, loneliness, depression, stress, hopelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, the consequences of a...
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Assessment and Prediction of Suicide
by Ronald W Maris Publisher Comments Suicide, currently the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, represents an enormous challenge to health care professionals. Bridging the gap between clinical work and scientific research, this book provides help for those who are at risk...
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Cliffs of Despair: A Journey to the Edge
by Tom Hunt Publisher Comments A fascinating work about suicide, life, and human nature, "Cliffs of Despair" is the account of an unforgettable journey to a place where beauty and death collide....
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Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
by Gail Griffith Publisher Comments In the early hours of March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that forever changed his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, takes us down the...
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Why Suicide?: Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide, Attempted S
by Eric Marcus Publisher Comments Almost all of us are touched at some point in our lives by suicide, whether it's the suicide or attempted suicide of someone we know, our own passing thoughts of suicide, or a heartfelt plea from a terminally ill loved one who wishes for a swift and...
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Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield Jamison Publisher Comments From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common...
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Sanity and Grace: A Journal of Suicide, Survival, and Strength
by Judy Collins Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-191)....
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Why People Die By Suicide (06 Edition)
by Joiner Publisher Comments In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: Why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by...
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The Death Debate: Ethical Issues in Suicide
by M Pabst Battin Publisher Comments The Death Debate focuses on the central philosophical question: What role may the individual play in his or her own death? Battin considers the arguments for and against suicide throughout history while offering a culturally diverse perspective. She...
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The Suicide Lawyers: Exposing Lethal Secrets
by C. C. Risenhoover Publisher Comments Dallas-based Simpson and Stacy is one of the most unique law firms in the nation. The partners, Skip Simpson and Michael Stacy, handle suicide cases almost exclusively. Award winning journalist and best selling author C. C. Risenhoover pries into the...
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Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
by Gail Griffith Publisher Comments This timely and compelling family memoir candidly tells the story of one family, an attempted teen suicide, and the emotional and practical struggle to get help....
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November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide
by George Howe Colt Publisher Comments Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist "The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's "November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation...
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No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One
by Carla Fine Publisher Comments Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of...
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Remembering Garrett: One Family's Battle with a Child's Depression
by Gordon H Smith Publisher Comments Oregon Senator Gordon Smith's son, Garrett, battled clinical depression for most of his life, and at the age twenty-two while attending the University of Utah, he took his own life. As parents, the suicide was absolutely heart-breaking for Smith and his...
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Suicide and Suicide Attempts in Europe
by Armin Schmidtke Synopsis From the Contents -- Introduction: Suicide Situation in Europe and Suicide Prevention in the Frame of the WHO Programme "Health for All by the Year 2000" Results: Suicidal Behavior in: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,...
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Lay My Burden Down: Suicide and the Mental Heath Crisis Among African-Americans
by Alvin F Poussaint Publisher Comments Suicide is now the third leading cause of death among Black males ages 15-19, after homicide and accidents. Although lifestyles in many cases differ dramatically, there have been no studies to determine whether or not the risk factors among African...
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