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Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind

10 best books like Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind (Edwin S. Shneidman): Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa, Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, A Beautiful Here: Emerging from the Overwhelming Darkness of My Son's Suicide, ...Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes, The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind, Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery, Love, Sara, Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children, Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital

Of Spirits and Madness: An American Psychiatrist in Africa
AuthorPaul R. Linde
ISBN0071407995
"This is a wonderful book. It gives a warm and loving picture of an isolated African country regularly castigated in the US press. It reiterates eloquently lessons lost by our medical establishment and our populace, which need to be regained." --Journal of the American Medical Association.

An...
Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences
AuthorGeo Stone
ISBN0786709405
In a few words, this is a how-to manual on suicide. More interestingly, the author also indicates what methods are best for suicidal gestures - the infamous "cries for help." The reader of this book will learn what to expect when hanging one's self, setting one's self on fire, jumping from a bridge, slitting...
Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
AuthorKay Redfield Jamison
ISBN0375701478
From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and...
A Beautiful Here: Emerging from the Overwhelming Darkness of My Son's Suicide
AuthorLinda Phillips
ISBN1537413678
Linda Phillips followed the light and found her joy after emerging from the overwhelming darkness of losing her son to suicide following a lifelong struggle with severe depression. In the decades since, the state of mental health care has declined. In this tender retelling of the most painful experience...
...Or Not to Be: A Collection of Suicide Notes
AuthorMarc Etkind
ISBN1573225800
Hmm. The title was my favorite part of this book. 2 ½ stars for the book

I’ve never truly understood suicide notes. If one is through with life, why the need to write a note? If one has more to say, why not say it and not commit suicide or defer suicide?

This is a collection of writings previously...
The Measure of Madness: Inside the Disturbed and Disturbing Criminal Mind
AuthorCheryl Paradis
ISBN0806531053
The defendant told the jury that he did not kill girlfriend. He "did," however, admit to dismembering her, boiling her bones, and hiding them in the Port Authority locker." At the heart of countless crimes lies the mystery of the human mind. In this eye-opening book, Dr. Cheryl Paradis draws back the...
Will's Choice: A Suicidal Teen, a Desperate Mother, and a Chronicle of Recovery
AuthorGail Griffith
ISBN0060598662
On March 11, 2001, seventeen-year-old Will ingested a near-fatal dose of his antidepressant medication, an event that would forever change his life and the lives of his family. In Will's Choice, his mother, Gail Griffith, tells the story of her family's struggle to renew Will's interest in life and...
Love, Sara
AuthorMary Beth Lundgren
ISBN0805067973
"From the computer files of Sara J. Reichert:
My life, from the last day of summer vacation,
to almost spring of my Junior year.
No matter what you might have heard,
this is the real story."

Love, Sara is the story of two teenage best friends, Sara and Dulcie. Sara, the narrator,...
Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
AuthorPaul Raeburn
ISBN0767914384
In the tradition of Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, Acquainted with the Night is a powerful memoir of one man’s struggle to deal with the adolescent depression and bipolar disorder of his son and his daughter.

Seven years ago Paul Raeburn’s son, Alex, eleven, was admitted...
Bedlam: A Year in the Life of a Mental Hospital
AuthorDominick Bosco
ISBN1559721138
This is a novel that NEEDED to be written, and Dominick Bosco has done an incredibly fine job of it.

He has had a compassionate and lengthy sabbatical studying health care for the mentally ill at first hand, and presents the whole panoramic sweep of it.

From multiple points of view - in...
The Mummy at the Dining Room Table: Eminent Therapists Reveal Their Most Unusual Cases and What They Teach Us about Human Behavior
AuthorJeffrey A. Kottler
ISBN0787978043
"A wife pretends to hang herself in the basement so she can time how long it will be before her husband comes to rescue her. . . .a woman whose dead aunt was made into a mummy so the family could better grieve her passing and on occasion dine with her at family gatherings . . . a man wants his nose cut off to escape...
Waking Up, Alive
AuthorRichard A. Heckler
ISBN0345400356
In this extraordinary book, psychologist Richard A. Heckler tells the whole story of the descent, the attempt, and the return to life. He gives new depth to our understanding of the descent—the withdrawal from relationships, the facade of normalcy, and the suicidal trance. For the first time, we...
Me, Myself, and Them: A Firsthand Account of One Young Person's Experience with Schizophrenia
AuthorKurt Snyder
ISBN0195311221
During his second semester at college, Kurt Snyder became convinced that he was about to discover a fabulously important mathematical principle, spending hours lost in daydreams about numbers and symbols. In time, his thoughts took a darker turn, and he became preoccupied with the idea that cars...
Crazy in America: The Hidden Tragedy of Our Criminalized Mentally Ill
AuthorMary Beth Pfeiffer
ISBN0786717459
Crazy in America shows how people suffering from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and other serious psychological illnesses are regularly incarcerated because alternative care is not available. Once behind bars, they are frequently punished again for behavior that is...
The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen
AuthorRobert Epstein
This groundbreaking book argues that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without. Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of "Psychology Today," shows that teen turmoil is caused by outmoded systems put into place a century ago which destroyed the continuum between...
November of the Soul: The Enigma of Suicide
AuthorGeorge Howe Colt
ISBN0743264479
Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide. Drawing on hundreds...
A Mood Apart: The Thinker's Guide to Emotion and Its Disorders
AuthorPeter C. Whybrow
"A compassionate exploration of depression and manic-depression."
-- Forecast


"The most thorough and wide-ranging discussion for lay readers about the interplay of the physical and emotional elements of depression and manic-depression... His presentation is illuminating,...
Myths About Suicide
AuthorThomas E. Joiner
ISBN0674048229
Around the world, more than a million people die by suicide each year. Yet many of us know very little about a tragedy that may strike our own loved ones--and much of what we think we know is wrong. This clear and powerful book dismantles myth after myth to bring compassionate and accurate understanding...
Suicide: The Forever Decision
AuthorPaul G. Quinnett
ISBN0824513525
It felt as though the author was talking "at" his audience rather than to them, and taking into account that this book was intended for those who might be considering suicide, that seems like a mishap waiting to happen. Quinnet glances over suicide as a whole and does his best to "persuade" (from his own...
Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective
AuthorAaron T. Beck
At the forefront of the cognitive revolution, renowned psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck turned to information processing in order to understand the sources, consequences, and cures of anxiety disorders and phobias. In the first half of this classic text, Beck elaborates on the clinical picture of anxiety...
Where to Start and What to Ask: An Assessment Handbook
AuthorSusan Lukas
ISBN0393701522
As a life raft for beginners and their supervisors, Where to Start and What to Ask provides all the necessary tools for garnering information from clients. Lukas also offers a framework for thinking about that information and formulating a thorough assessment. This indispensable book helps therapeutic...
Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief
AuthorTom Zuba
The death of someone we love
cracks us open
inviting us to become
the person we were born to be.

This is the book Tom Zuba wishes he had read after his daughter Erin died. And after his wife Trici died. It’s the book he wishes he’d been handed following his son Rory’s death. But...
When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within
AuthorMatthew McKay
ISBN1572243449
A major revision of the best-selling classic — a quarter of a million copies sold.


This new edition of When Anger Hurts is a complete, step-by-step guide to changing habitual anger-generating thoughts while developing healthier, more effective ways of meeting your needs. It includes...
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