Search Results for:  – Page 5

For many first responders, firefighters included, the idea of mental health is for the other guy.  It’s a tough job and you’ve got to “man

It’s dangerous to look at a multifaceted problem like suicide from a single lens, but if you had to pick a single view, Suicide as

We’re trapped in a view of suicide that conceptualizes it as a psychological problem.  We can’t see how to integrate multiple views of the problem

People are funny about death, grief, and bereavement.  We continue to stick our heads in the sand and pretend that death doesn’t exist – or

It’s not multiple personality disorder (now called “dissociative identity disorder”), but it’s odd when the author of the book refers to the pen name from

How could you not wonder what you could have done differently when someone you love dies by suicide?  How are you supposed to feel?  How

A disproportionate number of the books that I read are written by American authors.  This is particularly true when it comes to books on suicide. 

Decades after Shneidman started doing psychological autopsies at the request of the medical examiner, a mother who lost her son implored him to use his

Suicide is, unfortunately, not the only death of despair.  In Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, the argument is made that we’re getting

As a cisgender, old, white guy, I have no doubt that I come from a different place than Alexandre Baril in Undoing Suicidism: A Trans,