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001			ocn440563013
003			OCoLC
005			20251028093213.0
008			090924s2010 maua b 001 0 eng
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035			_a(Sirsi) i9780674048225
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780674048225
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020			_a9780674048225 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a0674048229 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a9780674061989
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035			_a(OCoLC)440563013
050	0	0	_aHV 6545 _b.J648 2010
049			_aVF$A
100	1		_aJoiner, Thomas, _cJr.
245	1	0	_aMyths about suicide / _cThomas Joiner.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c2010.
300			_a[ix], 288 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-280) and index.
520			_aAround the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones, and much of what we think we know is wrong. This book dismantles myth after myth to bring compassionate and accurate understanding of a massive international killer. Drawing on a fascinating array of clinical cases, media reports, literary works, and scientific studies, the author demolishes both moralistic and psychotherapeutic cliches. He shows that suicide is not easy, painless, cowardly, rash, vengeful, or selfish. It is not a manifestation of "suppressed rage" or a side effect of medication. It is not caused by breast augmentation, medicines, "slow" methods like smoking or anorexia, or, as some psychoanalysts once thought, things like masturbation. Threats of suicide, far from being idle, are often followed by serious attempts. People who are prevented once from killing themselves will not necessarily try again. The risk for suicide, he argues, is partly genetic and is influenced by often agonizing mental disorders. Vulnerability to suicide may be anticipated and treated. Most important, suicide can be prevented. The author, an expert whose own father's death by suicide changed his life, is relentless in his pursuit of the truth about suicide and deeply sympathetic to such tragic waste of life and the pain it causes those left behind.--Book jacket.
505	0		_aIntroduction : Our most basic terror and our most tragic thoughts -- The suicidal mind -- Suicidal behavior -- Causes, consequences, and subpopulations -- Conclusion : Stigma : the future of a partial illusion.
650		0	_aSuicide.
650		0	_aSuicide victims _xPsychology.
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