Farberow, an internationally known expert on suicide, and his eminent colleagues define indirect selfdestructive behavior and examine its causes, characteristics, and numerous manifestations including smoking, drug use, gambling, and high-risk sports

The Many Faces of Suicide: Indirect Self-Destructive Behavior

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Farberow, Norman L.

Psychology & Counseling

McGraw=Hill

Suicide: Inside and out

Suicide: Inside and Out

Reynolds, David K.

University of California Press

Suicide in Asia and the Near East

Headley, Lee

A comprehensive volume of more than five hundred essay entries, this work details the causes, history, and psychology of suicide and contains listings of associations, hotlines, and clinics that assist suicidal individuals and their families

The Encyclopedia of Suicide

Self-Help

Evans, Glen

Death & Grief

FACTS ON FILE+

Statistics show that about 11 out of every 100,000 Americans commits suicide each year. This is an A to Z introduction to the phenomenon of suicide from ancient times to the 21st century. It includes the causes, history, and psychology of suicide.

The Encyclopedia of Suicide (Facts on File Library of Health and Living)

Children and Disasters (Series in Trauma and Loss)

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Gordon, Norma S.

Maida, Carl A.

Mental Health

Routledge

This revised edition is designed for mental health practitioners, all of whom must at one time or another deal with a crisis of suicide. It argues that in practically every case, suicide need not occur. unnecessary.

The Psychology of Suicide

Shneidman, Edwin S.

Litman, Robert E.

Jason Aronson, Inc.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Taboo Topics

Why is it so hard to investigate taboo topics? A myriad of forces shape and fashion human action, reaction, thought, and feeling, and these are not always well understood. Norman L. Farberow argues that culture itself provides structure for its members, developing in a well-defined way the rules to which they will conform. Such rules find expression not only in written laws and regulations but include, and most often stem from, unwritten folkways, customs, and especially taboos, the subject of this book.
The researchers reporting in this volume take no position on the nature of a taboo itself, but concentrate on the difficulty in investigating taboos. As members of society and human beings, they do make judgments and personal investments. Thus, when taboos continue or develop without useful society-enriching functions or facilitate self-destructive activities, they raise questions about why they persist.
Such topics include many areas‘some social, such as sex, death, and peace; others more academic, such as parapsychology, graphology, religion, and hypnosis. Peace and the public are included in the discussion because they are emotion-laden areas and powerful and important factors in a shrinking world and expanding universe. Peace, especially, has begun to be looked upon with suspicion perhaps a real commentary on our times. This probing collection will be sure to interest sociologists, anthropologists, and all other social scientists.

Why is it so hard to investigate taboo topics? A myriad of forces shape and fashion human action, reaction, thought, and feeling, and these are not always well understood. Norman L. Farberow argues that culture itself provides structure for its members, developing in a well-defined way the rules to which they will conform. Such rules find expression not only in written laws and regulations but include, and most often stem from, unwritten folkways, customs, and especially taboos, the subject of this book. The researchers reporting in this volume take no position on the nature of a taboo itself, but concentrate on the difficulty in investigating taboos. As members of society and human beings, they do make judgments and personal investments. Thus, when taboos continue or develop without useful society-enriching functions or facilitate self-destructive activities, they raise questions about why they persist. Such topics include many areas—some social, such as sex, death, and peace; others more academic, such as parapsychology, graphology, religion, and hypnosis. Peace and the public are included in the discussion because they are emotion-laden areas and powerful and important factors in a shrinking world and expanding universe. Peace, especially, has begun to be looked upon with suspicion—perhaps a real commentary on our times. This probing collection will be sure to interest sociologists, anthropologists, and all other social scientists.

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Books by Farberow, Norman L.

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The Many Faces of Suicide: Indirect Self-Destructive Behavior

Suicide: Inside and Out

Suicide in Asia and the Near East

The Encyclopedia of Suicide

The Encyclopedia of Suicide (Facts on File Library of Health and Living)

Children and Disasters (Series in Trauma and Loss)

The Psychology of Suicide

Children and Disasters (Series in Trauma and Loss)

Taboo Topics

Taboo Topics