Suicide category: 248 books

Sixteen-year-old Miles has run away from home, inviting his childhood companion, the fourteen-year-old Inuit orphan Chateaugué, to join him in a rented flat opposite Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours in Montreal. There they construct a chaste life for themselves, living as brother and sister. They spend their...

What happened when I felt let down by the world around me and shamed by who I had become and the destruction that was to follow once I gave up on it all and no longer cared who was to suffer by my own hands, long ready to strangle so many for so long. So much had formed and gathered, the colliding...

This book is a must-read for practitioners, policy makers, and researchers working in mental health services, psychology, counselling, social work, psychiatry, medicine, philosophy, sociology, suicidology, feminism, anthropology, critical disability studies, and cultural studies.

Depression is the leading cause of suicide, domestic violence, declining performance and relationship issues. It is an absolute necessity to get take control of it, and get rid of it.  Even if you are not facing depression related issues, this eBook will help you keep this beast under control....

• Approximately 5.4 million Americans have become survivors of suicide in the last 25 years. (American Association of Suicidology) • Major depressive disorder affects approximately 14.8 million American adults. (National Institute of Health) • Approximately 5.7 million adults are affected by...

"Powerful ... full of dark nostalgia."-Nathan Englander *The Lifeboat All night in his lifeboat my father sang to keep the voices of the other men who cried in the wreckage from reaching him, he sang what he knew of the requiem, of the hit parade and the bits of hymns, he...

"This book describes parasuicidality from a different perspective, yet still within the framework of DBT. These concepts will be helpful to clinicians, who often spend much of their time dealing with these troubling behaviorsÖ.This book is well worth the price and the reader will not be disappointed."...

You know that feeling. That feeling you’ve been caught. Caught doing something maybe you shouldn’t have been doing. Well the other day Friendo receives a letter from Social Assistance letting him know just that. He’s been caught double dipping; double dipping into Social Assistance and Employment Insurance at the same time. "Memoir - Suicide"

"There is great tension that so many of us feel within our private, inner spaces. I am deeply worried by our tendency to repress our emotional struggles and then unleash them into the environment with our behaviour, affecting the lives of those around us. I have committed my childhood, my education...

Helping the Suicidal Person provides a highly practical toolbox for mental health professionals. The book first covers the need for professionals to examine their own personal experiences and fears around suicide, moves into essential areas of risk assessment, safety planning, and treatment planning,...

In this haunting and riveting firsthand account, a survivor of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple opens up the shadowy world of cults and shows how anyone can fall under their spell. A high-level member of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple for seven years, Deborah Layton escaped his infamous commune in the...

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in our returning combat troops is one of the most catastrophic issues confronting our nation. Yet, despite the fact that nearly 20 percent of the over half million troops that have left the military since 2003 have been diagnosed with PTSD, and that many who suffer...

Grounded in decades of research and the clinical care of thousands of depressed and suicidal teens, this highly accessible book will enhance the skills of any therapist who works with this challenging population. The authors describe the nuts and bolts of assessing clients and crafting individualized...

Many people all around the world are battling with depression right now. Some are taking care of it with therapy, medications, or through a mixture of both. Others aren't getting help because they don't want to or don't even know that they have a problem. It is good to become educated on this matter...