Dimensions
130 x 197 x 26mm
Suicide is the third biggest, swiftest killer of young people in the Western world, and in the closing decades of the twentieth century it reached epidemic proportions. This book is a sensitive and penetrating analysis of the phenomenon of young suicide.
Most suicides, but by no means all, can be prevented. So says psychiatrist Kay Redfield Jamison, a survivor herself of a suicide attempt in 1974. In this penetrating study she observes how suicide is commonly preceded by signs that are often ignored, and suggests that parents in particular seriously underestimate the extent of depression in their adolescent children.
Combining a scientific exploration of its causes with moving case studies and cutting-edge research, this book stands to become a classic account of one of the most devastating and destructive diseases of our time and an attempt to understand why it is so prevalent in societies which seem to have everything.
