Why People Kill Themselves: A 2000 Summary of Research on Suicide [Hardcover]

David Lester (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0398071144 | ISBN-13: 978-0398071141 | Publication Date: November 2000 | Edition: 4th

As an annotated review of virtually every suicide study published in the English language between 1990 and 1997, this volume culminates David Lester’s study of 100 years of suicide research worldwide. It is a unique work, reaching beyond the approach of computerized services to focus on abstracts and identify relevant articles in the fields of medicine, biology, psychology, sociology, anthropology, criminal justice, and women’s studies. Lester’s investigations in this widely researched area are logically categorized by topics that include inheritance, physiological factors, sex, childhood experiences, sociological theories, rate reliability and validity, sociological correlates, time variations, multivariate studies, meteorological correlates, social relationships, methodological issues, the suicidal act, epidemiology, methods of suicide, communication, psychiatric disorders, medical illnesses, suggestion, aggression, personalities and behaviors, suicidal types, other self-destructive behaviors, suicidal behavior in other species, and theories of suicide. This is an indispensable volume in the modern study of suicide and a fitting companion to the author’s three previous research volumes.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 410 pages
• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd; 4th edition (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0398071144
• ISBN-13: 978-0398071141
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,854,077 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in London in 1942 and slept in an air raid shelter for my first three years. I wanted to be a physicist, but I got my BA at Cambridge University in psychology. I emigrated to the USA in 1964 for graduate study with Abraham Maslow at Brandeis University. I've researched and written about suicide since then, but also about topics such as murder, the death penalty, life after death and the fear of death. I have a badly written, unpublished detective story (on www.drdavidlester.net), so I decided that I had better stick to scholarly writing.