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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51009418 Title: Leaving you : the cultural meaning of suicide Author: Lisa J Lieberman Publisher: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2003. ISBN/ISSN: 1566634962 9781566634960 OCLC:51009418

  
  

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Leaving you : the cultural meaning of suicide

Author:	Lisa J Lieberman
Publisher:	Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2003.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Summary At heart, suicide is a subversive act: the assertion of individual will against public authority. How is it, then, that the act of suicide -- one with defiant political implications -- has come to be viewed as the last refuge of the self-destructive victim? In Leaving You, Lisa Lieberman explores the puzzle of our reigning perception of suicide. Drawing on diverse sources, from biblical stories to Romantic novels, from philosophical theories to psychiatric diagnoses, along with contemporary memoirs of suicidal depression, she finds that the idea of suicide as an act of protest has pervaded Western attitudes toward self-destruction -- yet our contemporary way of thinking attempts to deny suicide's disruptive potential by depriving the act of its defiance. As Ms. Lieberman shows, efforts to read meaning out of suicide are everywhere today. Therapeutic strategies that treat suicide as an illness -- medicating the depression while ignoring the underlying motivations that drive people to end their lives -- effectively diminish individual responsibility for the decision to die. Sociological explanations that emphasize social causes over individual intentions serve to make suicides passive. Our reluctance to recognize the right to die, to concede this right even to the terminally ill, Ms. Lieberman suggests, betrays our uneasiness with the power implied in the act of self-destruction. She aims to restore autonomy to the so-called victims by showing how suicide came to function as a vehicle for constructing one's identity.  Read more...
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