Teenage suicide notes : an ethnography of self-harm /

"Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide may be uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become an epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so m...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Williams, Terry M. (Terry Moses), 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
Series:Cosmopolitan life.
Subjects:
Teenagers > Suicidal behavior > United States.
Adolescent psychology > United States.
Self-mutilation > United States.
Self-destructive behavior > United States.
Adolescent psychology.
Self-Injurious Behavior > ethnology
Suicide > ethnology
Adolescent
Psychology, Adolescent
Adolescents > Comportement suicidaire > États-Unis.
Adolescents > Psychologie > États-Unis.
Automutilation > États-Unis.
Comportement autodestructeur > États-Unis.
Adolescents > Psychologie.
PSYCHOLOGY > Suicide.
Adolescent psychology
Self-destructive behavior
Self-mutilation
Teenagers > Suicidal behavior
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Little girl lost: Kyra
  • The fighter: Enoch
  • Overload: Candy
  • The last stand: David
  • Homo: Tucker
  • Escaping death: Gita
  • Shock jock: boots
  • Cutter: Jill
  • On the road: Cody
  • Born-again virgin: Gabriella
  • Afterword
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: Ipe and Brownson
  • Appendix 2: Enoch and his brother.

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