Kategoria BISAC: Psychology >> Psychopathology - Depression

Studying the interaction of gender, class, race/ethnicity, and aging in the depression experience of older women provides a unique opportunity to understand how aging plays a significant role in shaping conceptions of self and emotional health trajectories for women. Based on author interviews with mostly working-class, depressed, elderly women, this book contributes to the theoretical understanding of femininity and aging and the practical implications for policy and effective health care treatment. Cultivating an "alternative self" can reduce older women’s suffering and provide the...

Suicidology is the study of suicide and its prevention. This book contains chapters on the history and development of suicidology, the relation of trauma to suicide, psychological dimensions of suicide, the psychological autopsy, the problems of surviving a suicide attempt and the right to die.