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Why do people commit suicide? How do cultural and social factors come into play in individual cases? A special issue of the journal "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviour", this volume aims to advance prevention efforts in the United States and around the world by exploring the meaning and prevalence of suicide from a multicultural perspective. Chapters from international writers comprise both clinical case studies and broader empirical investigations. This book should be of interest to professionals, faculty, and students in psychology, psychiatry, social work, sociology, public health, epidemiology, pastoral counselling, and crisis intervention. It is intended to serve as supplementary reading for undergraduate and graduate-level courses in topics including: introduction to psychology/psychiatry, psychology and sociology of suicide, culture and psychology, abnormal psychology, emergency medicine, introduction to nursing, and social work practice.
Contents
Part I Individual perspectivescultural perspective, Berman; Rick - a suicide of a young adult, Leenaars; culture and ego-ideal in suicide - an adult case, Maltsberger; being suicidal and elderly in changing times - a case history, Richman; social suicide, Maris. Part II Cultural perspectives: suicide in America - a nation of immigrants, Lester; suicide - the scourge of Native American people, EchoHawk; African-American suicide - a cultural paradox, Gibbs; suicide in San Francisco, CA - a comparison of caucasian and Asian groups, 1987-1994, Shian, et al; suicidality among acculturating Mexican Americans - current knowledge and directions for research, Hoovey, King. Part III International perspectives; suicide in an international perspective, Lester; suicide in Canada with special reference to the difference between Canada and the United States, Sakinofsky, Leenaars; perspectives - suicide in Europe, Schmidtke; culture and suicide - from a a Japanese psychiatrist's perspective, Takahshi.
