The conventional approach to suicide is psychiatric: ask the
average person why people kill themselves, and they will likely
cite depression. But this approach fails to recognize suicide's
social causes. People kill themselves because of breakups and
divorces, because of lost jobs and ruined finances, because of
public humiliations and the threat of arrest. While some
psychological approaches address external stressors, this
comprehensive study is the first to systematically examine suicide
as a social behavior with social catalysts. Drawing on Donald
Black's theories of conflict management and pure sociology, Suicide
presents a new theory of the social conditions that compel an
aggrieved person to turn to self-destruction. Interpersonal
conflict plays a central but underappreciated role in the incidence
of suicide. Examining a wide range of cross-cultural cases, Jason
Manning argues that suicide arises from increased inequality and
decreasing intimacy, and that conflicts are more likely to become
suicidal when they occur in a context of social inferiority. As
suicide rates continue to rise around the world, this timely new
theory can help clinicians, scholars, and members of the general
public to explain and predict patterns of self-destructive
behavior.
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