Kay Redfield Jamison

Night Falls Fast. Understanding Suicide

Picador / London 2000

Stron X+432, format: 13x21 cm

NOWA: książka jednak posiada przybrudzenia, delikatne uszkodzenie okładki w lewym górnym rogu.


Contents
Prologue 3
i BURIED ABOVE GROUND
An Introduction to Suicide 9
1 Death Lies Near at Hand
History and Overview 11
2 To Measure the Heart's Turbulence
Definitions and Magnitudes 2 6
Essay: THIS LIFE, THIS DEATH 52
ii JUST HOPE HAS GONE
Psychology and Psychopathology j i
3 Take Off the Amber, Put Out the Lamp
The Psychology of Suicide 73
4 The Burden of Despair
Psychopathology and Suicide 98
5 What Matters It, If Rope or Garter
Methods and Places 130
Essay: THE LION ENCLOSURE 154
in PANGS OF NATURE, TAINTS OF BLOOD
The Biology of Suicide 161
6 A Plunge into Deep Waters
Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives 163
7 Death-Blood
Neurobiology and Neuropathology 182
Essay: THE COLOURING TO EVENTS:
THE DEATH OF MERIWETHER LEWIS 213
iv BUILDING AGAINST DEATH Prevention of Suicide 233
8 Modest Magical Qualities
Treatment and Prevention 235
9 As a Society
The Public Health 264
10 A Half-Stitched Scar Those Left Behind 290
Epilogue 309
Appendix: Resources for Information
About Suicide, Mental Illness, and
Alcohol and Drug Abuse 315
Notes 319
Acknowledgments 415
Index 419