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An exploration of the motivations, characteristics, and psychology
of suicide Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians
best plan and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients
who are giving up on themselves? Suicide, its motivations,
characteristics, and psychology are explicated in these papers by
the most experienced and renowned experts on the subject. A
definitive volume, Essential Papers on Suicide features the work of
Ernest Jones; Kate Friedlander; George Murphy, R. H. Wilkinson, S.
Gassner, and J. Kayes; Joseph C. Sabbath; Robert E. Litman; Milton
Rosenbaum; Charles Swearingen; Avery D. Weisman; Mervin Glasser,
Egl Laufer, Moses Laufer and Myer Wohl; Donald A. Schwartz, Don E.
Flinn and Paul F. Slawson; Aaron T. Beck, Maria Kovacs and Arlene
Weissman; Marie sberg, Lil Traskman and Peter Thoren; Stuart Asch;
John T. Maltsberger; Alex D. Pokorny; Erna Furman; Cynthia R.
Pfeffer, Robert Plutchik, Mark S. Mizruchi and Robert Lipkins;
Myrna M. Weissman, Gerald L. Klerman, Jeffrey S. Markowitz and R.
Oullette; Jan Fawcett, William A. Scheftner, Louis Fogg, David C.
Clark, Michael A. Young, Don Hedeker, and Robert Gibbons, among
others.
"Have you ever tried to convince someone you weren't crazy?" So
begins the seduction journal of the unnamed narrator of Sloth. It's
not a mere hypothetical because he's fallen in love with a TV
exercise girl named Holly Servant; he must convince her of his
sanity from afar if he's ever to woo her in the flesh. But how can
he win her heart when he's a waiter--that is, a man who waits in
long lines for a living? How can he cut the line to her affections?
Women like Holly don't date the likes of him. So he assumes the
identity of his friend Zezel, a former newspaper columnist who once
wrote under the pen name "Mark Goldblatt." But in this satire of
postmodernism, which is also a postmodern satire, nothing is what
it seems. Does Holly actually exist, or is she a figment of the
narrator's imagination? Does Zezel actually exist, or is he an
alter-ego who takes over the narrator's journal? Does the narrator
have a name, or is he just an excuse to ask questions? (And who's
writing this cover copy, come to think of it?) Nothing of the sort
concerns Detective Lacuna. He only wants to know who murdered the
male prostitute who used to cruise for tricks out down the block
from the narrator's apartment. Sloth is a timeless love story with
a rim shot core, a pulse-quickening mystery wrapped in knish skin.
You'll never look at your reflection the same way after you've read
it.
Why do people take their own lives? How can clinicians best plan
and carry out intelligent treatment of desperate patients who are
giving up on themselves? Suicide, its motivations, characteristics,
and psychology are explicated in these papers by the most
experienced and renowned experts on the subject. A definitive
volume, Essential Papers on Suicide features the work of Ernest
Jones; Kate Friedlander; George Murphy, R. H. Wilkinson, S.
Gassner, and J. Kayes; Joseph C. Sabbath; Robert E. Litman; Milton
Rosenbaum; Charles Swearingen; Avery D. Weisman; Mervin Glasser,
Egl Laufer, Moses Laufer and Myer Wohl; Donald A. Schwartz, Don E.
Flinn and Paul F. Slawson; Aaron T. Beck, Maria Kovacs and Arlene
Weissman; Marie sberg, Lil Traskman and Peter Thoren; Stuart Asch;
John T. Maltsberger; Alex D. Pokorny; Erna Furman; Cynthia R.
Pfeffer, Robert Plutchik, Mark S. Mizruchi and Robert Lipkins;
Myrna M. Weissman, Gerald L. Klerman, Jeffrey S. Markowitz and R.
Oullette; Jan Fawcett, William A. Scheftner, Louis Fogg, David C.
Clark, Michael A. Young, Don Hedeker, and Robert Gibbons, among
others. John T. Maltsberger, M.D., is a Lecturer on Psychiatry at
Harvard Medical School. Mark J. Goldblatt, M.D. is an Instructor in
Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
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