This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of
history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element
in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.
Ancient Greek society displays in its literature and the lives of
its people an obsessive interest in suicide and death. Kaplan and
Schwartz have explored the psychodynamic roots of this problem--in
particular, the tragic confusion of the Greek heroic impulse and
its commitment to unsatisfactory choices that are destructively
rigid and harsh. The ancient Hebraic writings speak little of
suicide and approach reality and freedom in vastly different terms:
God is an involved parent, caring for his children. Therefore,
heroism, in the Greek sense, is not needed nor is the individual
compelled to choose between impossible alternatives.
In each of the first three sections, the authors discuss the
issues of suicide from a comparative framework, whether in thought
or myth, then the suicide-inducing effects of the Graeco-Roman
world, and finally, the suicide-preventing effects of the Hebrew
world. The final section draws on this material to present a
suicide prevention therapy. Historical in scope, the book offers a
new psychological model linking culture to the suicidal personality
and suggests an antidote, especially with regard to the treatment
of the suicidal individual.
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