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Night falls fast : understanding suicide / Kay Redfield Jamison.

Jamison, Kay R. (Author).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • 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.
Subject:
Suicide > United States.
Children > Suicidal behavior > United States.
Youth > Suicidal behavior > United States.
Children.
Youth.

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