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Suicide

The Tragedy of Hopelessness
  • ISBN-13: 9781853024443
  • Publisher: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
  • By David Aldridge
  • Price: AUD $78.99
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  • Local release date: 14/01/1998
  • Format: Paperback (231.00mm X 156.00mm) 320 pages Weight: 498g
  • Categories: Counselling & advice services [JKSN2]
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Within late 20th-century industrial societies suicide among the young and elderly has increased. Drawing from psychology, social psychology and sociology, the author looks at the issued surrounding the topic: reasons for suicide and the process of becoming suicidal; reactions to suicidal behaviour; the responses of the medical profession; preventing repeated attempts at suicide; the individual and their relationship to family and society; and the pattern of relationships. The author suggests that behaviour is not understood when it is isolated from social systemic contexts. Suicidal behaviour is often regarded as ''impulsive''. However, perhaps such behaviour only appears impulsive when regarded by an observer without a satisfactory theoretical understanding of such acts. The book attempts to show how persons who are suicidal make sense of what they do.
The tragedy of hopelessness; explanations of suicidal behaviour; family interaction and suicidal behaviour; a systemic perspective; a model of distress management; legitimating suicide and the politics of dying; the politics of self-mutilation; everyday descriptions of suicidal behaviour; the strategic assessment of self-harm; suicidal behaviour and adolescence in family contexts; the politics of symptoms and marital conflict; the dialectical process of negotiating distress; the politics of prevention.
`His method of describing family dynamics around suicidal behaviour is particularly illuminating. After a fascinating review of historical and cultural perspectives of suicide, Aldridge examines contemporary attitudes towards it.'
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