Suicide and Predicament: Life is a Predicament

Open Access

|Dec 2010

Suicide and Predicament: the medical model of suicide is incomplete takes a broad view of suicide. It argues that a large proportion of people who suicide do not have a mental disorder and therefore it is essential to know about the predicaments of people. The book draws on sociology and takes issue with the medicalization of distress and suicide. It discusses genetics and draws attention to the importance of alcohol in suicide. It takes as examples 127 suicide cases found in public record. Unique features include 1) predicament model 2) pathways model 3) typology of suicide and 4) prevention initiatives.

PDF ISBN: 978-1-60805-169-4

Publisher: Bentham Science

Publication date: 2010

Language: English

Pages: 169

Related subjects:

Medicine,

Clinical medicine,

Psychiatry, psychotherapy

Suicide and Predicament: Life is a Predicament

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