Suicidology: a comprehensive biopsychosocial perspective

"Integrating research from multiple disciplines, this text provides a comprehensive perspective on suicide and examines what works in prevention and intervention. The author is a pioneering researcher and clinician who addresses the classification, prevalence, and assessment of suicide and self-destructive behaviors and explores risk factors at multiple levels, from demographic variables, personality traits, psychiatric diagnoses, and neurobiological factors to the social and cultural context. Student-friendly features include text boxes that dive deeply into specific issues, instructive figures and tables, thought-provoking clinical cases, and engaging examples from literature and popular culture. The text reviews medical and psychosocial treatment and prevention approaches, discusses ways to help those bereaved by suicide, and considers issues of professional liability"--

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables, Cases, Figures, and Boxes -- Part I. Foundations -- 1. Introduction to Suicidology -- 2. The Theoretical Construction of Suicidology -- Part II. Data, Research, Assessment -- 3. Grounding Suicidology in Empirical Evidence -- 4. Measurement: Risk Factors and Risk Assessment -- Part III. Sociodemographic Issues -- 5. Age, Lifespan, and Suicidal Careers -- 6. Sex, Gender, and Marital Status: A Phallocentric Focus -- 7. Social Relations, Work, and the Economy: Social versus Individual Facts -- 8. International Variation, Ethnicity, and Race in Suicide -- 9. Who Makes Suicide Attempts, How, and What Do Suicide Notes Say about Them? -- Part IV. Major Mental Disorders, Biology, Neurobiology -- 10. Mental Disorder: The Most Important Suicide Risk Factor? -- 11. Major Depression: Undiagnosed and Untreated -- 12. Bipolar Disorder: A Suicidogenic Cycle of Despair -- 13. Schizophrenia: Bizarre and Psychotic Suicides -- 14. Personality Disorders: Borderline, Antisocial, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personalities -- 15. Alcoholism and Other Substance Abuse: The Second Most Important Suicide Risk Factor -- 16. Biology, Genetics, and Neurobiology: Suicidal Biogenics of the Brain -- Part V. Religion, Culture, History, Ethics -- 17. God, the Afterlife, Religion, and Culture -- 18. Suicide in History and Art: How Did Suicide Evolve? -- 19. Ethical Issues, Euthanasia, and Rational Suicide: Is Suicide Ever the Right Thing to Do? -- Part VI. Special Topics -- 20. Suicide in the Military: War, Aggression, and PTSD -- 21. Murder-Suicide: Why Take Someone with You? -- 22. Jail and Prison Suicides: Confinement, Rage, and Target Reduction -- Part VII. Treatment and Prevention

"Integrating research from multiple disciplines, this text provides a comprehensive perspective on suicide and examines what works in prevention and intervention. The author is a pioneering researcher and clinician who addresses the classification, prevalence, and assessment of suicide and self-destructive behaviors and explores risk factors at multiple levels, from demographic variables, personality traits, psychiatric diagnoses, and neurobiological factors to the social and cultural context. Student-friendly features include text boxes that dive deeply into specific issues, instructive figures and tables, thought-provoking clinical cases, and engaging examples from literature and popular culture. The text reviews medical and psychosocial treatment and prevention approaches, discusses ways to help those bereaved by suicide, and considers issues of professional liability"--