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Suicidology : contemporary developments

Title: Suicidology : contemporary developments / edited by Edwin S. Shneidman ; foreword by Milton Greenblatt.
Publication: New York : Grune & Stratton, ©1976.

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Shneidman, Edwin S.

Description

xv, 571 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Seminars in psychiatry

Uniform Title

Seminars in psychiatry (New York, N.Y. : 1975)

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Contents

Introduction: current overview of suicide / Edwin S. Shneidman -- United States suicide rates, 1933-1968: an analysis of some trends / James C. Diggory -- The demographic epidemiology of suicide / Leonard L. Linden & Warren Breed -- Black suicide in New Orleans / William C. Swanson & Warren Breed -- Lethality factors and the suicide attempt / J. William Worden -- Development and validation of scales for estimation of suicide risk / Jerome A. Motto & David C. Heilbron -- Reasoning patterns in suicide notes / Peter Tripodes -- Current developments in the study of suicidal thinking / Charles Neuringer -- Suicide notes reconsidered / Edwin Shneidman -- Self-mutilation and suicide / Michael A. Simpson -- Growing up dead: student suicide / Herbert Hendin -- Suicide among the gifted / Edwin S. Shneidman -- The morality and rationality of suicide / Richard Brandt -- Legal views of suicide / Thomas L. Shaffer -- Suicide as the preferred way of death / Robert Kastenbaum --
Crisis intervention and suicide prevention / Ari Kiev -- The volunteer suicidologist: current status and future prospects / Richard K. McGee -- The recent decline of suicide in Britain: the role of the Samaritan Suicide Prevention Movement / Richard Fox -- Beyond crisis intervention / Robert E. Litman & Carl I. Wold.

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76007031

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Princeton University Library