Five-year-old Tommy killed himself at home, where he lived with
parents who said he was unwanted and deficient. College student
Jennifer committed suicide by swallowing a huge mixture of pills at
a motel, miles from the house where she lived with an imposing,
unemotional mother who'd long thought the girl a burden. Bob, a
father of two and computer company manager, might have survived his
attempt at suicide, but his wife did not call 911 for 10 minutes
after she found him in his running car in the garage, so he died on
the way to the hospital. All of these cases described in detail by
author Mecke share a factor aside from the fatality. Each person
was clearly motivated by an instigator: someone who provoked the
suicide. Instigators create a crushing relationship with a
potentially suicidal person that, as Mecke puts it, becomes a
"fatal attachment." Mecke, with more than 40 years experience as
clinical psychologist, believes instigators are responsible in a
significant number of the more than 30,000 suicides that occur in
the United States each year. Through vivid and compelling text, we
understand the minds of suicide victims and their instigators, and
also learn how early trauma associated with death or abandonment
can make one become an instigator. Finally, Mecke shows us how we
can intervene to try and break the instigator's grip, to foil the
attachment. As she explains one of her primary points, relating to
both the suicidal and their instigators, is that children require
careful nurturing especially during their early lives. "And the
bent their personalities take following a trauma places
responsibility upon us all to watch, to explain, to care for them."
In addition to tragicstories drawn from her practice, Mecke also
describes the instigators in larger scale suicides and those of
historical figures--from the cult suicide of hundreds moved by Jim
Jones at Jamestown, and the suicide bombings motivated by Osama bin
Laden, to the suicide of poet Sylvia Plath and the person who
precipitated her death. Classical literature and Greek mythology is
also used extensively to address the issue of what triggers
suicide. The insights apply universally. This is a must-read for
clinicians, counselors, and anyone interested in knowing about
suicide and its causes.
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