{"product_id":"the-suicidal-mind","title":"The Suicidal Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuicide haunts our literature and our culture  claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of death for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the United States  raising alarms across the nation about the rising tide of hopelessness seen in our young people. It is a taboo subtext to our successes and our happiness  a dark issue that is often euphemized  avoided  and little understood. In our century  psychology and psychiatry alike have attempted to understand  prevent  and medicalize these phenomena. But they have failed  argues Dr. Edwin Shneidman  because they have lost sight of the plain language  the ordinary everyday words  the pain and frustrated psychological needs of the suicidal individual. In The Suicidal Mind  Dr. Shneidman has written a groundbreaking work for every person who has ever thought about suicide or knows anybody who has contemplated it. The book brims with insight into the suicidal impulse and with helpful suggestions on how to counteract it. Shneidman presents a bold and simple premise: the main cause of suicide is psychological pain or \"psychache.\" Thus the key to preventing suicide is not so much the study of the structure of the brain  or the study of social statistics  or the study of mental diseases  as it is the direct study of human emotions. To treat a suicidal individual  we need to identify  address  and reduce the individuals psychache. Shneidman shares with the reader his knowledge  both as a clinician and researcher  of the psychological drama that plays itself out in the suicidal mind through the exploration of three moving case studies. We meet Ariel  who set herself on fire; Beatrice  who cut herself with the intent to die; and Castro  a young man who meant to shoot his brains out but survived  horribly disfigured. These cases are presented in the persons own words to reveal the details of the suicidal drama  to show that the purpose of suicide is to seek a solution  to illustrate the pain at the core of suicide  and to isolate the common stressor in suicide: frustrated psychological needs. Throughout  Shneidman offers practical  explicit maneuvers to assist in treating a suicidal individual--steps that can be taken by concerned friends or family and professionals alike. Suicide is an exclusively human response to extreme psychological pain  a lonely and desperate solution for the sufferer who can no longer see any alternatives. In this landmark and elegantly written book  Shneidman provides the language  not only for understanding the suicidal mind  but for understanding ourselves. Anyone who has ever considered suicide  or knows someone who has  will find here a wealth of insights to help understand and to prevent suicide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44945433264181,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195103661","price":90.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195103663.jpg?v=1770577126","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-suicidal-mind","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}