Night falls fast : understanding suicide / Kay Redfield Jamison.
A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-influcted death.
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- ISBN: 0375401458
- ISBN: 9780375401459
- Physical Description: x, 432 pages ; 23 cm
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-414) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- I Buried Above Ground: An Introduction to Suicide 9 -- 1 Death Lies Near at Hand: History and Overview 11 -- 2 To Measure the Heart's Turbulence: Definitions and Magnitudes 26 -- Essay: This Life, This Death 52 -- II Just Hope Has Gone: Psychology and Psychopathology 71 -- 3 Take Off the Amber, Put Out the Lamp: The Psychology of Suicide 73 -- 4 Burden of Despair: Psychopathology and Suicide 98 -- 5 What Matters It, If Rope or Garter: Methods and Places 130 -- Essay: The Lion Enclosure 154 -- III Pangs of Nature, Taints of Blood: The Biology of Suicide 161 -- 6 A Plunge into Deep Waters: Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives 163 -- 7 Death-Blood: Neurobiology and Neuropathology 182 -- Essay: The Colouring to Events: The Death of Meriwether Lewis 213 -- IV Building Against Death: Prevention of Suicide 233 -- 8 Modest Magical Qualities: Treatment and Prevention 235 -- 9 As a Society: The Public Health 264 -- 10 A Half-Stitched Scar: Those Left Behind 290.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Richlands Branch Library | 616.85 JAM (Text) | 36015001304449 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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