Essential Papers on Suicide Contributor(s): Maltsberger, John T. (Editor), Goldblatt, Mark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0814755496 ISBN-13: 9780814755495 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1996 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Suicide |
Dewey: 616.858 |
LCCN: 96021405 |
Series: Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis |
Physical Information: 1.63" H x 6" W x 9" (2.44 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An exploration of the motivations, characteristics, and psychology of suicide Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians best plan and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients who are giving up on themselves? Suicide, its motivations, characteristics, and psychology are explicated in these papers by the most experienced and renowned experts on the subject. A definitive volume, Essential Papers on Suicide features the work of Ernest Jones; Kate Friedlander; George Murphy, R. H. Wilkinson, S. Gassner, and J. Kayes; Joseph C. Sabbath; Robert E. Litman; Milton Rosenbaum; Charles Swearingen; Avery D. Weisman; Mervin Glasser, Egl Laufer, Moses Laufer and Myer Wohl; Donald A. Schwartz, Don E. Flinn and Paul F. Slawson; Aaron T. Beck, Maria Kovacs and Arlene Weissman; Marie sberg, Lil Traskman and Peter Thoren; Stuart Asch; John T. Maltsberger; Alex D. Pokorny; Erna Furman; Cynthia R. Pfeffer, Robert Plutchik, Mark S. Mizruchi and Robert Lipkins; Myrna M. Weissman, Gerald L. Klerman, Jeffrey S. Markowitz and R. Oullette; Jan Fawcett, William A. Scheftner, Louis Fogg, David C. Clark, Michael A. Young, Don Hedeker, and Robert Gibbons, among others. |
Contributor Bio(s): Maltsberger, John T.: - John T. Maltsberger, M.D., is a Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.Goldblatt, Mark: - Mark J. Goldblatt, M.D. is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. |