| Description |
xiii, 176 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
A Spectrum book |
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Spectrum book.
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| Contents |
Suicide: a meaningful behavior -- Problems in suicide research -- Labelling death: taxonomies of dying -- Heredity and environment in the causation of suicide -- childhood experience and subsequent suicide -- Personality differences and suicide -- Suicide and aggressiveness -- Suicide and homicide -- The social context of suicide -- Suicidal communication and the suicide note -- Thought processes of the suicidal person -- Sex differences in suicidal behavior -- Specia groups of particular concern to suicidologists -- Sociological factors in suicide -- Sociological theories in suicide -- Drugs, alcohol, and suicidal behavior -- Suicide and mental illness -- Time, season, weather, and suicide -- A case of suicide -- Resources for preventing suicide |
| Analysis |
Suicide Psychological aspects |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Suicide.
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Suicide.
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| Author |
Lester, David, 1942-
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| LC no. |
71153444 |
| ISBN |
0138758239 |
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