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Author Jamison, Kay R.

Title Night falls fast : understanding suicide / Kay Redfield Jamison.

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  616.8584 J245    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  362.28 JAMISON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.28 JA    Check Shelf
Edition First Vintage Books edition.
Description x, 432 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-414) and index.
Contents pt. 1. Buried above ground: an introduction to suicide -- ch. 1. Death lies near at hand: history and overview -- ch. 2. To measure the heart's turbulence: definitions and magnitudes -- Essay: this life, this death -- pt. 2. Just hope has gone: psychology and psychopathology -- ch. 3. Take off the amber, put out the lamp: the psychology of suicide -- ch. 4. Burden of despair: psychopathology and suicide -- ch. 5. What matters it, if rope or garter: methods and places -- Essay: the lion enclosure -- pt. 3. Pangs of nature, taints of blood: the biology of suicide -- ch. 6. Plunge into deep waters: genetic and evolutionary perspectives -- ch. 7. Death-blood: neurobiology and neuropathology -- Essay: the colouring to events: the death of Meriwether Lewis -- pt. 4. Building against death: prevention of suicide -- ch. 8. Modest magical qualities: treatment and prevention -- ch. 9. As a society: the public health -- ch. 10. Half-stitched scar: those left behind.
Summary From the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind: the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, with a particular focus on its terrible pull on the young. Night Falls Fast is both compelling and timely: in the United States and across the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. It is the third major cause of death in 19- to 24-year-olds, and the second in college students. Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, an internationally recognized authority on depressive illnesses and their treatment, knows this subject firsthand. At the age of 28, after years of struggling with manic-depression, she attempted to kill herself. Her survival marked the beginning of a life's work to investigate both mental illness and self-inflicted death. Weaving together a psychological and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays about individual suicides, Dr. Jamison in this book brings not only her compassion and literary skill, but all of her knowledge, research and clinical experience to bear on this devastating problem. In tracing the network of reasons that underlie suicide, Dr. Jamison gives us astonishing examples of the methods and places people have chosen to kill themselves, and a startling look at their journals, drawings and farewell notes. She also brings us vivid insight into the most recent findings from hospitals and laboratories across the world; the critical biological and psychological factors that interact to cause suicide; the new strategies being evolved to combat them; and the powerful, but insufficiently used treatments from modern medicine. Night Falls Fast dispels the silence and shame that too often surround suicide; it helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to better recognize the person at risk, and to comprehend the profound and disturbing loss created in those left behind.
Subject Suicide -- United States.
Children -- Suicidal behavior -- United States.
Youth -- Suicidal behavior -- United States.
Affective disorders.
Suicide -- psychology.
Behavioral Symptoms.
Mood Disorders.
Affective disorders (OCoLC)fst00798861
Children -- Suicidal behavior (OCoLC)fst00855160
Suicide (OCoLC)fst01137578
Youth -- Suicidal behavior (OCoLC)fst01183560
United States $2 fast $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155
ISBN 0375701478 (paperback)
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