TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joiner,Thomas
TI  - Myths about suicide 
SN  - 9780674048225 
AV  - HV6545 .J648 2010
U1  - 362.28 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Suicide victims
KW  - Psychology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : our most basic terror and our most tragic thoughts -- The suicidal mind -- Suicidal behavior -- Causes, consequences, and subpopulations -- Conclusion : stigma : the future of a partial illusion
N2  - We need to get it in our heads that suicide is not easy, painless, cowardly, selfish, vengeful, selfmasterful, or rash; that it is not caused by breast augmentation, medicines, "slow" methods like smoking or anorexia, or, as some psychoanalysts thought, things like masturbation; that it is partly genetic and influenced by mental disorders, themselves often agonizing; and that it is preventable and treatable
ER  -