Suicide : individual, cultural, international perspectives / Antoon A. Leenaars, Ronald W. Maris, and Yoshitomo Takahashi, editors.

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Publication InfoNew York : Guilford Publications, 1997.
Description151 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Other author/creatorLeenaars, Antoon A.
Other author/creatorMaris, Ronald W.
Other author/creatorTakahashi, Yoshitomo.
Other author/creatorAmerican Association of Suicidology. Meeting 1996) (29th :
Contents pt. 1. Individual perspectives -- ch. 1. Adolescent: the individual in cultural perspective / Alan L. Berman -- ch. 2. Rick: a suicide of a young adult / Antoon A. Leenaars -- ch. 3. Culture and ego-ideal in suicide: an adult case / John T. Maltsberger -- ch. 4. Being suicidal and elderly in changing times: a case history / Joseph Richman -- ch. 5. Social suicide / Ronald W. Maris -- pt. 2. Cultural perspectives -- ch. 6. Suicide in America: a nation of immigrants -- ch. 7. Suicide: the scourge of Native American people / Marlene EchoHawk -- ch. 8. African-American suicide: a cultural paradox / Jewelle T. Gibbs -- ch. 9. Suicide in San Francisco, CA: a comparison of Caucasian and Asian groups, 1987-1994 / Julia Shiang, Robert Blinn, Bruce Bongar, Boyd Stephens, Donna Allison and Alan Schatzgberg -- ch. 10. Suicidality among acculturating Mexican Americans: current knowledge and directions for research / Joseph D. Hovey and Cheryl A. King -- pt. 3. International perspectives -- ch. 11. Suicide in an international perspective / David Lester -- ch. 12. Suicide in Canada with special reference to the difference between Canada and the United States / Isaac Sakinofsky and Antoon A. Leenaars -- . ch. 13. Perspectives: suicide in Europe / Armin Schmidtke -- ch. 14. Culture and suicide: from a Japanese psychiatrist's perspective / Yoshitomo Takahashi.
General noteAt head of title: Special issue.
General note"Special issue, Suicide and life-threatening behavior, 27(1), Spring 1997."
General noteContains core keynote papers from the 29th Annual Conference of the American Association of Suicidology.
General noteSimultaneously published in Suicide and life threatening behavior, volume 27, number, spring 1997 by the American Association of Suicidology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other title Suicide & life-threatening behavior.
LCCN 98155040
ISBN1572302402

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