Myths about suicide
By: Thomas Joiner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780674048225
Description: We need to get it in our heads that suicide is not easy, painless, cowardly, selfish, vengeful, selfmasterful, or rash; that it is not caused by breast augmentation, medicines, "slow" methods like smoking or anorexia, or, as some psychoanalysts thought, things like masturbation; that it is partly genetic and influenced by mental disorders, themselves often agonizing; and that it is preventable and treatable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : our most basic terror and our most tragic thoughts; title: The suicidal mind; title: Suicidal behavior; title: Causes, consequences, and subpopulations; title: Conclusion : stigma : the future of a partial illusion.