Current and comprehensive information concerning the assessment and treatment of suicidal persons and the prevention of suicidal behavior
The eighth leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause among U.S. teens, suicide is unique in being self-inflicted and is, as such, often preventable. By assessing the risk of suicide accurately, providing effective treatment according to this risk, and implementing strategies against suicidal urges, mental health professionals can successfully guide their clients away from this senseless taking of life.
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Current and comprehensive information concerning the assessment and treatment of suicidal persons and the prevention of suicidal behavior
People have believed in the existence of life after death throughout human history and in all regions of the world. Mere belief, however, does not make it true. What is the empirical evidence for life after death? Has any significant research been conducted, and if so, what conclusions does it suggest? In fact there exists a large body of research on topics relevant to the question of life after death. This book objectively examines that research, drawing together the observations of social science regarding such phenomena as reincarnation, near-death experiences, deathbed visions, cases of...
People have believed in the existence of life after death throughout human history and in all regions of the world. Mere belief, however, does not mak...
This study presents an evaluation of the past, present and future of suicidal behaviour and efforts to prevent or facilitate suicide. Authors from the varying disciplines of psychology, sociology and psychiatry analyze suicide in the opening chapters. Through the exploration of the roles of these disciplines, the roles of primary physicians, and the impact of suicide prevention education in schools, the contributors describe the history of suicidology and the changes necessary for improvement. The book concludes with a section detailing the goals and activities of organizations designed to...
This study presents an evaluation of the past, present and future of suicidal behaviour and efforts to prevent or facilitate suicide. Authors from the...
This bestselling book has become a staple of every serious true crime book collector's library. One of the most reliable concise sources of information available about serial killers and their crimes, this book offers a psychological and sociological analysis of this most frightening yet fascinating criminal. Psychologist David Lester, recognized worldwide as a leading authority on death-both in the fields of suicide and homicide-offers a much-needed assessment of whether or not there is a dependable and useable psychological profile of the serial killer. Separating the facts from the myths...
This bestselling book has become a staple of every serious true crime book collector's library. One of the most reliable concise sources of informatio...
Suicide prevention is a major goal of the Public Health Service of the US government. This has been the case since the 1960s when the National Institute of Mental Health established a center for the study and prevention of suicide. Since then, however, the knowledge and research gathered has not bought about the reduction of suicide. This volume was written to change this trend. This book reports a program of research concerned with preventing suicide by restricting access to lethal agents, such as guns, drugs, and carbon monoxide. It may seem implausible that deeply unhappy people could be...
Suicide prevention is a major goal of the Public Health Service of the US government. This has been the case since the 1960s when the National Institu...
This book examines the diaries from eight individuals who killed themselves. Using both qualitative analyses and quantitative analyses, Lester uncovers the unique thoughts and feelings that led these individuals to take their own lives. Lester also analyzes suicide notes, poems and letters written by suicides, blogs and twitter feeds, and one tape recording of a young man who killed himself just an hour or so after he recorded the tape.
This book examines the diaries from eight individuals who killed themselves. Using both qualitative analyses and quantitative analyses, Lester unco...
Life in the Ghetto can be very strange at times, especially when that Ghetto is the oldest surviving neighborhood in St. Louis. Soulard they called it. A lot of people took a lot of time and effort to raise the neighborhood from the ashes like the Phoenix. This is a story about that rise as well as the hopes and dreams about what the future might bring to those of us who were a part of it... if you were lucky.
Life in the Ghetto can be very strange at times, especially when that Ghetto is the oldest surviving neighborhood in St. Louis. Soulard they called it...
On Multiple Selves refutes the idea that a human being has a single unified self. Instead, David Lester argues, the mind is made up of multiple selves, and this is a normal psychological phenomenon. Lester expands on his earlier work on the phenomenon, illuminating how a "multiple-self theory of the mind" is critically necessary to understanding human behavior.
Most of us are aware that we have multiple selves. We adopt different "facade selves" depending on whom we are with. Lester argues that contrary to the popular psychological term, "false self," these...
On Multiple Selves refutes the idea that a human being has a single unified self. Instead, David Lester argues, the mind is made ...
