This is a volume that updates the field of suicidology and provides the clinician with a comprehensive textbook on the subject. Thirty-three authors follow an orderly and economic format, resulting in a systematic offering on all significant patient checkpoints and portals into the care system where suicidological issues may arise.
A recurrent theme fundamental to the field of suicide and its prevention is the complex, multidetermined perspective required for study. From the molecular through the international, every level in the biological hierarchy has a bearing on suicidal acts. Any public health issue of consequence, such as suicide, invokes such a consciousness of its complexity. It is, however, an awareness particularly important in the case of suicide because of the deep values touched on by the act of suicide and the efforts at prevention.
The topic of suicide touches the most fundamental of human concerns, death, and evokes every ideological facet