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The Encyclopedia of Suicide (Facts on File Library of Health & Living)
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The Encyclopedia of Suicide (Facts on File Library of Health & Living)
by Glen Evans

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Statistics show that approximately 11 out of every...
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Essential Papers on Suicide (Essential Papers in Psychoanalysis)
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Essential Papers on Suicide (Essential Papers in Psychoanalysis)
by John T. Maltsberger

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Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians best plan and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients who are giving up on themselves? Suicide, its motivations, characteristics, and psychology are explicated in these papers by the...
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Suicide Science: Expanding the Boundaries
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Suicide Science: Expanding the Boundaries
by M. David Rudd

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Suicide is a pressing international health problem, yet its breadth remains unacknowledged. The principal purpose of Suicide Science is to expand the boundaries of suicide research, by focusing on fresh approaches to the problems as well as on emerging...
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Suicide Lawyers
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Suicide Lawyers
by C. C. Risenhoover

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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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A Psychology of Hope: A Biblical Response to Tragedy and Suicide
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A Psychology of Hope: A Biblical Response to Tragedy and Suicide
by Kalman J. Kaplan

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This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it. Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the...
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A Time to Live: Surviving Suicidal Thoughts
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A Time to Live: Surviving Suicidal Thoughts
by Kimberly Andry

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Making plans to end your life? Does a sense of hopelessness overwhelm every fiber of your being? Deep down you do not want to die but you are saying to yourself, I cannot continue to live like this. You can have hope again Hope for surviving your darkest...
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Suicide prevention :the global context
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Suicide prevention :the global context
by Robert J. Kosky

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The proceedings of the March 1997 conference contain 39 contributions, including tributes to two individuals who have made outstanding contributions to suicide research and prevention: Norman Farberow and Erwin Stengel. The 100th anniversary of the...
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One Side of Suicide
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One Side of Suicide
by Dee Burt

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One Side of Suicide draws on the author's personal use of journaling to move from surviving to thriving in a powerful story of loss and love. Journaling pages with writing prompts help you go within on your own healing journey. Includes professional...
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Why Suicide?: Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide, Attempted S
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Why Suicide?: Answers to 200 of the Most Frequently Asked Questions about Suicide, Attempted S
by Eric Marcus

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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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Suicidal Patient : Clinical and Legal Standards of Care (2ND 02 Edition)
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Suicidal Patient : Clinical and Legal Standards of Care (2ND 02 Edition)
by Bruce Bongar

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This second edition updates a classic text in the field of suicidology. The Suicidal Patient continues to be a worthy source of empirical information on the clinical and legal standards of care for this high-risk population. Combining clinical expertise...
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Measuring Suicidal Behavior and Risk in Children and Adolescents (Measurement and Instrumentation in Psychology)
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Measuring Suicidal Behavior and Risk in Children and Adolescents (Measurement and Instrumentation in Psychology)
by David B. Goldstein

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-289) and index....
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When Living Hurts: For Teenagers, Young Adults, Their Parents, Leaders, and Counselors
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When Living Hurts: For Teenagers, Young Adults, Their Parents, Leaders, and Counselors
by Sol Gordon

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This insightful, direct book is written for young people who are in trouble or for those who wish to help those in trouble. It identifies early warning signs of suicide, suggests how to get help for different kinds of problems, and offers ways to cope...
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Remembering Garrett: One Family's Battle with a Child's Depression
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Remembering Garrett: One Family's Battle with a Child's Depression
by Gordon H Smith

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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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Secrets of Suicide: Healing the Hidden Wounds That Lead Us to Suicide
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Secrets of Suicide: Healing the Hidden Wounds That Lead Us to Suicide
by Ken Tullis M. D.

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Suicide is often viewed as a final choice - the last option that will solve life's problems. Unknown to many, however, living life for some entails a bewildering and frightening daily dance with death. This groundbreaking book describes an exciting and...
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Treatment of Suicidal Patients in Managed Care
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Treatment of Suicidal Patients in Managed Care
by James M., M.d. (edt) Ellison

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In these nine chapters, psychiatrists, social workers, doctors, lawyers, and nurses discuss the treatment of suicidal patients in a managed care setting. Specific topics include crisis care, brief hospitalization, alternatives to hospitalization...
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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
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Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
by Michael Manning

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Traces the historical development of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and then explores the arguments on both sides of the issue, ending with a chapter detailing the author's own opinion against. Manning trained as an M.D. before entering the...
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Comprehensive Textbook of Suicidology (00 Edition)
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Comprehensive Textbook of Suicidology (00 Edition)
by Ronald W. Maris

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This volume presents an authoritative overview of current scientific knowledge about suicide and suicide prevention. Multidisciplinary and comprehensive in scope, the book provides a solid foundation in theory, research, and clinical applications. Issues...
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Why People Die by Suicide
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Why People Die by Suicide
by Thomas Joiner

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Drawing on extensive clinical and epidemiological evidence, as well aspersonal experience, Thomas Joiner provides the most coherent and persuasive explanation evergiven of why and how people overcome life's strongest instinct, self-preservation. He tests...
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Teenage Wasteland : Suburbia's Dead End Kids (98 Edition)
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Teenage Wasteland : Suburbia's Dead End Kids (98 Edition)
by Donna Gaines

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Teenage Wasteland provides memorable portraits of "rock and roll kids" and shrewd analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. A powerful indictment of the often manipulative media coverage of youth crises and so-called alternative...
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The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
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The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
by A Alvarez

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The aims of this fascinating, compassionate book are broadly cultural and literary, though the narrative is rooted in personal experience. "To write a book about suicide . . . to transform the subject into something beautiful--this is the forbidding task...
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