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Analysing Suicide - Reality Myth Fallacy

Philip O'Keeffe

My book examines recent literature on suicide in Northern Ireland, Ireland, Great Britain and elsewhere, in the context of my life experience, my MSc/PhD university dissertations, and ongoing social discourse and public/political narratives about suicide prevention and assisted suicide. I question the validity of a necessary link between suicide and mental disorder, as defined by psychiatry. I contend that suicide represents a multidimensional, multifactorial reality, characterised by many complex factors: individual instability, social context and historical, political and cultural contingency. I argue that each lethal suicidal event is unique in its time, place, situation and circumstance, such that its preliminary actuality may remain largely unknown.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Maple Publishers
  • Publish Date: Aug 15th, 2025
  • Pages: 512
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 1.13in - 1.87lb
  • EAN: 9781835384060
  • Categories: Violence in SocietyPsychopathology - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)Sociology - General