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Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death
Jason Aronson, Inc. 2012; US$ 59.99In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment , Dr. Norman Straker's psychoanalytic perspective on facing cancer and the fear of death brings into sharp focus the emotional conflicts of doctors, psychoanalysts, and all mental health professionals as they interface with dying patients and their families. Remedies... more...
Do Funerals Matter? The Purpose and Practice of Death Rituals
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 37.95Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, they are going. Death educators, researchers, counselors, clergy, funeral-service professionals,... more...
Suicide
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 110.00There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What... more...
Georges Bataille
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.95George Bataille (1867-1962) is widely recognized as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. This is the first book in English to examine Bataille's work as a whole. It offers an accessible introduction to a complex and often ambiguous thinker. more...
Quality of Mercy
Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 20.90Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Irene Anderson was determined to die with dignity. 1071 days later, her husband Ross fulfilled her wish, helping her to end her life with total disregard for the criminal implications. more...
Out of Options
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 89.00This looks at suicidal and risk-taking behaviour and includes a discussion of disorders such as depression, conduct problems, and substance abuse that often precede suicide. The material is presented in a structured way that allows the reader to follow the logical progression. more...
Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 22.99Shneidman (U. of California at Los Angeles) examines the case of an individual suicide, bringing together interviews with his family and friends, involved professionals, and "consultations" with other psychiatrists specializing in suicide in order to conduct a post-mortem "autopsy" of the psychological state that led to the young man's death. Annot more...
Depression and Attempted Suicide in Adolescents
Wiley 2009; US$ 26.95It aims to provide the practitioner with a description of depression, an explanation of factors that contribute to mood disorders and guidance on their assessment and treatment in adolescence. In addition, it aims to provide a framework for the assessment and management of adolescence that have threatened or attempted suicide. more...
The Dead Beat
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world?so she sought out the best obits in the English language and the people who spent their lives writing about the dead. She surveyed the darkest corners of Internet chat rooms, and made a pilgrimage to London to savor the most caustic and literate obits of all.... more...
The Inner World of a Suicidal Youth
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 40.00A suicidal girl's diary, discovered after her death, gives gripping insight into why her self-esteem and will to live eroded, how she became a "pretender" to evade help, and - with narrative and comments from a psychiatrist included in this book - shows what this tragedy can teach us about better prevention and treatment strategies needed. more...









