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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jamison, Kay R. Night falls fast. New York : Knopf, 1999 (OCoLC)607313785 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kay R Jamison |
| ISBN: | 0375401458 9780375401459 |
| OCLC Number: | 41380737 |
| Description: | x, 432 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Buried above ground: an introduction to suicide -- ch. 1. Death lies near at hand: history and overview -- ch. 2. To measure the heart's turbulence: definitions and magnitudes -- Essay: this life, this death -- pt. 2. Just hope has gone: psychology and psychopathology -- ch. 3. Take off the amber, put out the lamp: the psychology of suicide -- ch. 4. Burden of despair: psychopathology and suicide -- ch. 5. What matters it, if rope or garter: methods and places -- Essay: the lion enclosure -- pt. 3. Pangs of nature, taints of blood: the biology of suicide -- ch. 6. Plunge into deep waters: genetic and evolutionary perspectives -- ch. 7. Death-blood: neurobiology and neuropathology -- Essay: the colouring to events: the death of Meriwether Lewis -- pt. 4. Building against death: prevention of suicide -- ch. 8. Modest magical qualities: treatment and prevention -- ch. 9. As a society: the public health -- ch. 10. Half-stitched scar: those left behind. |
| Responsibility: | Kay Redfield Jamison. |
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Abstract:
A study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people draws on the author's firsthand battle with severe manic-depression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of self-influcted death.
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