Suicide Individual, Cultural, International Perspectives,9781572302402

Suicide Individual, Cultural, International Perspectives

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ISBN13: 9781572302402
ISBN10: 1572302402
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-04-25
Publisher(s): The Guilford Press
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Summary

Why do people commit suicide? How do cultural and social factors come into play in individual cases? A special issue of the acclaimed journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, this volume aims to advance prevention efforts in the United States and around the world by exploring the meaning and prevalence of suicide from a multicultural perspective. Chapters, from leading international experts, comprise both clinical case studies and broader empirical investigations.

Author Biography

Antoon A. Leenaars , PhD. , C.Psych., University of Leiden
Ronald W.Maris , PhD., University of South Carolina
Yoshitomo Takahashi , M.D. , Tokoyo Institute of Psychiatry

Table of Contents

Preface 1(4)
PART I. INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVES 5(45)
1. The Adolescent: The Individual in Cultural Perspective
5(10)
Alan L. Berman
2. Rick: A Suicide of a Young Adult
15(13)
Antoon A. Leenaars
3. Culture and Ego-Ideal in Suicide: An Adult Case
28(6)
John T. Maltsberger
4. Being Suicidal and Elderly in Changing Times: A Case History
34(7)
Joseph Richman
5. Social Suicide
41(9)
Ronald W. Maris
PART II. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES 50(54)
6. Suicide in America: A Nation of Immigrants
50(10)
David Lester
7. Suicide: The Scourge of Native American People
60(8)
Marlene EchoHawk
8. African-American Suicide: A Cultural Paradox
68(12)
Jewelle T. Gibbs
9. Suicide in San Francisco, CA: A Comparison of Caucasian and Asian Groups, 1987-1994
80(12)
Julia Shiang
Robert Blinn
Bruce Bongar
Boyd Stephens
Donna Allison
Alan Schatzberg
10. Suicidality Among Acculturating Mexican Americans: Current Knowledge and Directions for Research
92(12)
Joseph D. Hovey
Cheryl A. King
PART III. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 104
11. Suicide in an International Perspective
104(8)
David Lester
12. Suicide in Canada with Special Reference to the Difference Between Canada and the United States
112(15)
Isaac Sakinofsky
Antoon A. Leenaars
13. Perspectives: Suicide in Europe
127(10)
Armin Schmidtke
14. Culture and Suicide: From a Japanese Psychiatrist's Perspective
137
Yoshitomo Takahashi

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