Making sense of suicide : an in-depth look at why people kill themselves /
by David Lester, PhD.
- Phildelphia, PA : The Charles Press, Publishers, 1997.
- ix, 195 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Suicide: A Meaningful Behavior -- Problems in Suicide Research -- Labeling Death: Tzxonomies of Dying -- Heredity, Environment and Suicide -- Childhood Experiences and Suicide Later in Life -- Personality and Suicide -- Aggression and Suicide -- Suicide and Homicide -- The Social Context of Suicide -- Suicidal Communications and the Suicide Note -- How the Suicidal Person Thinks -- Gender Differences in Suicidal Behavior -- Young People, African Americans and Native Americans -- Sociological Factors in Suicide -- Sociological Theories of Suicide -- Drugs, Alcohol and Suicidal Behaviro -- Mental Illness and Suicide -- Time, Season, Weather and Suicide -- An Individual Case of Suicide -- Preventing Suicide: What Everyone Should Know -- Index.