Survivors of Suicide is a helping guide for those family and friends left behind when a loved one commits suicide. This newly revised edition goes into more detail about teen suicide and the help that is available. Survivors of Suicide also dispels the myths surrounding suicide, based on the latest research and interviews with leading medical experts, as well as with family and friends who have survived the suicide deaths of loved ones, and who offer support, knowledge, and comfort to other survivors.
Survivors of Suicide includes:
-Words of comfort from survivors.
-How you can help someone who loses a loved one to suicide.
-The latest medical research on depression and suicide.
-What groups are most at risk for suicide.
-Debates on the differences between euthanasia and suicide.
-Why every suicide threat should be taken seriously.
-Directory of resources for help, including on-line resources.
No one is ever prepared for suicide. Here are three useful and informative works for the loved ones and acquaintances of suicides and for those wanting to disabuse themselves of the many myths surrounding this once-taboo but now exigent subject. Lester (psychology, Richard Stockton State Coll.) has written a comprehensive summary of research findings for the general reader, complete with detailed bibliographic references. Its broad selection of 97 topics ranges from fundamental psychiatric issues to the influence of biorhythms on suicide. Wrobleski's book, in question-and-answer format like Lester's, is rather amorphous and the 85 answers somewhat cursory. Still, both the uninformed reader and those caregivers needing simplified advice for youth exhibiting suicidal behavior might welcome this style in contrast to Lester's more studious approach to many of the same questions. Neither Lester nor Wrobleski adequately discuss the most recent findings regarding biochemical indicators or the involvement of the neurotransmitter serotonin in suicidal behavior. Robinson's work is the most interesting of the three in that it personalizes many of the compelling and shadowy issues that remain after a suicide. The author, a journalist, discusses the warning signs of suicide, but her comments are principally addressed to those grieving in its aftermath. She succeeds in dispelling many of the misconceptions regarding the existence, causes, and outcome of suicide and in encouraging new coping mechanisms to turn grief into action. She also examines the religious and moral implications of suicide from several points of view. - William Abrams, Portland State Univ. Lib., Ore. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
Paperback: 203 pages
Publisher: New Page Books; Revised edition (January 2001)
Rita Robinson was born on a farm in Ohio, but she has lived in Southern California since age 5. Robinson's reading habits, like her writing choices, prove eclectic with favorite fiction and nonfiction books spanning the classics to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and A Fine Balance, to The Age of American Unreason and The Road. Favorite authors range from Margaret Atwood and Gabriel Garcia Marquez to former columnists Erma Bombeck, Mike Royko, and too many others to name. But since about age 6 she's been a newspaper, book, and magazine hound. In keeping with that, she writes both fiction and nonfiction, mostly derived from curiosity and partly to answer her own questions about life. A quote from Walker Evans given in 1933 at the first one-man photographic exhibition by the new Museum of Modern Art speaks of a writer's life. "Stare, pry, listen, and eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long." For now she's working on a fiction book and a travel article. She's available on Facebook and Twitter under Rita Robinson. Rita Robinson's 11 published books include Grand Old Hotels of Southern and Central California, published by Epicenter Press; Survivors of Suicide; When Your Parents Need You; The Palm: A Guide to Your Hidden Potential; Discover Yourself Through Palm Reading; Friends: How to Make and Keep Them; Center of the World: Native American Spirituality; and Exploring Native American Wisdom, all from New Page Books, an imprint of Career Press. Also, The Hands of Health; and Color Your World: Using the Power of Color and Light in Your Life, both published by Newcastle Publishing Inc., and When Women Choose to Be Single, published by IBS Press. Additionally Robinson has edited and provided photograph and graphics for New Page Books, (The Benham Book of Palmistry); and for Rockefeller Publishing (The Naturalist Collector). Her approximate 1,500 published magazine articles, appearing on four continents, include Westways, Los Angeles Magazine, Men's Fitness, Reader's Digest, Cosmopolitan, First for Women, Pro-Trucker, Playgirl, The Acorn, Let's Live, Health Magazine, Trip & Tour, Kiwanis, and Parenting Magazine to name a few. Some of her photo work is included in three of her books, and several magazine articles. She has also conducted writing extension classes and workshops at seven community colleges, taught and lectured at several conferences, including the Maui Writer's Retreat, as well as working as a private writing coach and editor. She has been an instructor with Writer's Digest's WOW since its inception in 2002. She graduated from Valley College, San Bernardino, California, and has attended Cal State University, San Bernardino. Awards include several from the Press Club of Southern California: 1st Place, Feature Story; 1st Place, Freelance Story; Best Layout/Women's Page, Best Series, 1st Place, Lifestyle Feature, Best Series, Best Lifestyle Feature; Best Commentary; Best Review; and Sweepstakes Award, Writing.
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The title of this book, survivors of suicide, is extremely misleading. Having recently lost a sister to suicide, I bought this book to try to find some answers and/or support. Instead, reading this book made me feel more guilty and horrible then ever. A couple chapters are devoted to stories and stuff about survivors, but the majority of the book is about who is prone to suicide, how to prevent it, myths (i.e. don't ignore suicide threats)...I finished the book feeling that I was at fault for my sister's suicide. I would recommend that NO suicide survivors read this book.
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An exceptional book written with great sensitivity. This is an informative, helpful, extremely well written book. The author has researched the subject extensively and her excellent writing is down to earth and friendly. I would highly highly recommend this book to one and all.
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