Essential Papers on Suicide (Essential Papers on Psychoanalysis, 20) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081475550X ISBN 13: 9780814755501

Publisher: NYU Press, 1996

Synopsis

Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians best plan and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients who are giving up on themselves?
Suicide, its motivations, characteristics, and psychology are explicated in these papers by the most experienced and renowned experts on the subject. A definitive volume, Essential Papers on Suicide features the work of Ernest Jones; Kate Friedlander; George Murphy, R. H. Wilkinson, S. Gassner, and J. Kayes; Joseph C. Sabbath; Robert E. Litman; Milton Rosenbaum; Charles Swearingen; Avery D. Weisman; Mervin Glasser, Egl Laufer, Moses Laufer and Myer Wohl; Donald A. Schwartz, Don E. Flinn and Paul F. Slawson; Aaron T. Beck, Maria Kovacs and Arlene Weissman; Marie sberg, Lil Traskman and Peter Thoren; Stuart Asch; John T. Maltsberger; Alex D. Pokorny; Erna Furman; Cynthia R. Pfeffer, Robert Plutchik, Mark S. Mizruchi and Robert Lipkins; Myrna M. Weissman, Gerald L. Klerman, Jeffrey S. Markowitz and R. Oullette; Jan Fawcett, William A. Scheftner, Louis Fogg, David C. Clark, Michael A. Young, Don Hedeker, and Robert Gibbons, among others.

About this title

About the Author:

John T. Maltsberger, M.D., is a Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Mark J. Goldblatt, M.D. is an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

Review:

"Fascinating."-"Historical Journal of Massachusetts",

"Neimeyer pushes to the next plateau the recent work of historians who have investigated the contributions of the Continental Army to the American Revolution. Because of his research and his synthesis of recent scholarship, the previously inarticulate common soldiers of the rank and file find their voices."-James M. Johnson, author of "Militiamen, Rangers, and Redcoats: The Military in Georgia, 1754-1776"

"Neimeyer demythologizes the Continental army and very effectively demonstrates that it was an organization that evolved from its original relatively homogeneous make-up into a volatile, multicultural force that included many recent immigrants, African Americans, and Native Americans. . . . A testament to the propertyless, inarticulate, marginal individuals who actually secured liberty for later generations." -Dr. David J. Fowler, The David Library of the American Revolution

"Thoroughly compelling. Neimeyer's research is superb, and his social history perspective has told us more than anyone about the origins of the Continental Army and the meanings soldiers attached to their service. This is a genuinely important book."-Mark Edward Ledner, co-author of "A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic"

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 081475550X
• ISBN 13: 9780814755501
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Maltsberger John T., Goldblatt Mark