A Treatise On Insanity
A Treatise On Insanity

Author: Philippe Pinel

Publisher: Franklin Classics

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780343467654

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November of the Soul
November of the Soul

Author: George Howe Colt

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-02-21

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 0743282027

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Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews and a fascinating survey of current knowledge, Colt provides moving case studies to offer insight into all aspects of suicide -- its cultural history, the latest biological and psychological research, the possibilities of prevention, the complexities of the right-to-die movement, and the effects on suicide's survivors. Presented with deep compassion and humanity, November of the Soul is an invaluable contribution not only to our understanding of suicide but also of the human condition.

Rational Suicide?
Rational Suicide?

Author: James L. Werth Jr.

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-02-04

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 1317763424

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The idea that suicide may be an acceptable, rational option is rarely presented in professional literature. However, recent events and developments forcefully demonstrate that mental health professionals can no longer ignore the possibility that people can make a rational decision to die. After introducing the concept of rational suicide, the book explores the changing views of suicide over the centuries. Common arguments against rational suicide are examined and rebutted.

Histories of Suicide
Histories of Suicide

Author: John C. Weaver

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0802093604

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, who examine the history of suicide from a variety of approaches to provide crucial insight into how suicide differs across nations, cultures, and time periods.

The Idea of Suicide
The Idea of Suicide

Author: Michael J. Kral

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 0429676255

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This book is about a new theory of suicide as cultural mimesis, or as an idea that is internalized from culture. Written as part of a new, critical focus in suicidology, this volume moves away from the dominant, strictly scientific understanding of suicide as the result of a mental disorder, and towards positioning suicide as an anthropologically salient, community-driven phenomenon. Written by a leading researcher in the field, this volume presents a conception of suicide as culturally scripted, and it demonstrates how suicide becomes a cultural idiom of distress that for some can become a normative option.