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Myths about suicide /

We need to get it in our heads that suicide is not easy, painless, cowardly, selfish, vengeful, selfmasterful, or rash; that it is not caused by breast augmentation, medicines, "slow" methods like smoking or anorexia, or, as some psychoanalysts thought, things like masturbation; that it is...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Joiner, Thomas E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : our most basic terror and our most tragic thoughts
  • The suicidal mind
  • Suicidal behavior
  • Causes, consequences, and subpopulations
  • Conclusion : stigma : the future of a partial illusion.