Full Description
Globally, suicides account for a significant number of premature deaths every year. Traditional approaches to suicide research and prevention are not working for everyone, but why is this? And what can be done about it?
In Critical Suicidology, a team of international scholars, practitioners, and people directly affected by suicide argue that the field of suicidology has become too focused on the biomedical paradigm: a model that pathologizes distress and obscures the social, political, and historical contexts that contribute to human suffering. The authors introduce the perspectives of those who have direct personal knowledge of suicide and suicidal behaviour and propose alternative approaches to suicide prevention that are creative, socially just, and culturally responsive. In the right hands, this book could save lives.
Contents
Introduction: Rethinking Suicide / Jennifer White, Ian Marsh, Michael J. Kral, and Jonathan Morris
Part 1: Critiquing Suicidology: Constructions of Suicide and Practices of Prevention
1 Critiquing Contemporary Suicidology / Ian Marsh
2 A Critical Look at the Current Suicide Research / Heidi Hjelmeland
3 Exploring Possibilities for Indigenous Suicide Prevention: Responding to Cultural Understandings and Practices / Lisa M. Wexler and Joseph P. Gone
4 Risky Bodies: Making Suicide Knowable among Youth / Jonathan Morris
5 Speaking of Suicide as a Gendered Problematic: Suicide Attempts and Recovery within Women's Narratives of Depression / Simone Fullagar and Wendy O'Brien
Part 2: Insider Perspectives
6 "Being More Than Just Your Final Act": Elevating the Multiple Storylines of Suicide with Narrative Practices / Marnie Sather and David Newman
7 When Despair and Hope Meet the Stigma of "Manipulation" and "Ambivalence" / Yvonne Bergmans, Andrea Rowe, Michael Dineen, and Denise Johnson
8 No Regrets / Andrea Rowe
Part 3: Creating Alternatives: Re-envisioning Suicide and Prevention
9 Hate Kills: A Social Justice Response to "Suicide" / Vikki Reynolds
10 Queer Youth Suicide: Discourses of Difference, Framing Suicidality, and the Regimentation of Identity / Rob Cover
11 Understanding the Unfathomable in Suicide: Poetry, Absence, and the Corporeal Body / Katrina Jaworski and Daniel Scott
12 Indigenous Best Practices: Community-Based Suicide Prevention in Nunavut, Canada / Michael J. Kral and Lori Idlout
13 Reimagining Youth Suicide Prevention / Jennifer White
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