Suicide
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Secrets of Suicide: Healing the Hidden Wounds That Lead Us to Suicide
by Ken Tullis M. D.  Publisher Comments 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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The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
by Leslie P. Peirce Publisher Comments The unprecedented political power of the Ottoman imperial harem in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries is widely viewed as illegitimate and corrupting. This book examines the sources of royal women's power and assesses the reactions of contemporaries,...
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Review of Suicidology, 1997
by Ronald W. Maris Publisher Comments Presenting the latest scientific knowledge about suicidal behaviors, including reports of important research being published here for the first time, this volume is designed for both professionals and students in the field. Noted authorities cover...
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Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Guidelines for Clinically Based Risk Management
by Robert I. Simon Publisher Comments This book offers: - A solid, easy-to-understand review of how medical malpractice law applies to patient suicides. He discusses the standards of care physicians must meet, the conditions associated with malpractice liability, and how best to minimize...
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Current Concepts of Suicide
by David Lester Book News Annotation An appraisal of the current understanding of suicide and its prevention. A group of international authorities from England, Canada, West Germany, Hungary and the US discuss aspects of suicidal behavior, treatment and prevention from the particular...
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Lives & Deaths: Selections from the Works of Edwin S. Shneidman (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)
by Edwin S. Shneidman Publisher Comments Edwin S. Shneidman is recognized as the central figure in the field of suicidology. His writings have taught countless psychologists and other health professionals about the complexity of suicide, death and bereavement. This collection of his writings...
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American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum
by Teresa D. Lafromboise Publisher Comments Suicide is a significant problem for many adolescents in Native American Indian populations. "American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum" is a course for high school students and some middle school students that is designed to drastically reduce...
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Survivors of Suicide
by Rita Robinson Publisher Comments A helping guide for those family and friends left behind when a loved one commits suicide, including detailed information about teen suicide and the help that is available....
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Suicide & the Unconscious
by Antoon A. Leenaars Publisher Comments What you know about your behavior provides only a fragmentary aspect of the total of your mind. To understand human acts, including suicide, you must be conversant with the concept of the unconscious. Suicidology would be a barren study without it. Today...
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Understanding Suicidal Behaviour
by Rory O'connor Publisher Comments Beginning with a short history outlining different societies' attitudes to suicide, the book continues with a discussion of the difficulties of definition and measurement. The book includes a chapter on suicide letters and discusses whether they are a...
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Suicide as Psychache
by Edwin Shneidman Publisher Comments This is an important book that no suicidologist should be without. In it, the author, Edwin S. Shneidman, brings together work he undertook and completed between 1971 and 1993. This work includes an empirical study, some single case studies, some...
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Adolescent Suicide: Recognition, Treatment & Prevention
by Barry D. Garfinkel Publisher Comments Inform yourself with thorough and accurate knowledge about the incidence of adolescent suicide. Adolescent Suicide serves to correct erroneous conceptions--held by the public and professionals--about the nature of suicidal behavior among the young...
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Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide
by Thomas Szasz Publisher Comments In this thoughtful and compelling analysis, the world's foremost critic of coercions of the psychiatric institution defends a patient's right to choose life or death.<P>Fatal Freedom is an eloquent defense of every individual's right to choose a...
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Katie's Diary: Unlocking the Mystery of a Suicide (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)
by David Lester Publisher Comments "Katie's Diary" is a unique analysis of the diary left behind by a young woman who has committed suicide. As compared to suicide notes, which are typically brief, Katie's diary consists of five separate books, an opportunity to look into the mind of a...
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Suicidal Adolescent
by Moses Laufer Publisher Comments 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....
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A Special Scar: The Experience of People Bereaved by Suicide
by Alison Wertheimer Publisher Comments In a society where suicide is often viewed with fear or disapproval, it can be difficult for those personally affected by a suicide death to come to terms with their loss and seek help and support. "A Special Scar" looks in detail at the stigma...
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Suicidal Behaviour in South Africa
by Book News Annotation Internationally renowned suicide researcher Schlebusch (behavioral medicine, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, U. of KwaZulu-Natal) examines the growing problem of fatal and non-fatal suicidal behavior in South Africa. Coverage includes an...
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Essential Papers on Suicide
by John T. Maltsberger Publisher Comments 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 Information for Teens: Health Tips about Suicide Causes and Prevention
by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon Book News Annotation Shannon presents a compilation of documents and excerpts from publications issued by some 35 government agencies and mental health care organizations in the U.S., in this guide to teen suicide risks, causes, and prevention. Coverage includes basic...
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A Leadership Perspective for Understanding Police Suicide: An Analysis Based on the Suicide Attitude Questionnaire
by Orlando Ramos Synopsis This study examines suicide perceptions of police officers from two groups, east coast officers and west coast officers. To investigate this problem, the researcher conducted a quantitative analysis utilizing a previously validated instrument...
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