Includes bibliographies.

Part I: Literary and Philosophic Essays -- Dead to the world: the passions of Herman Melville / Henry A. Murray -- Shakespeare's suicides: some historic, dramatic and psychological reflections / M. D. Faber -- Death as a motive of philosophic thought / Jacques Choron -- Buddha and self-destruction / Gerald Heard -- Values and value conflict in self-destruction: implications in the work of C. W. Morris / Elsa A. Whalley -- Can a philosophy make one philosophical? / Stephen C. Pepper -- Part II: Sociological and Ethnographic Essays -- Death in American society / Talcott Parsons and Victor Lidz -- Practical sociological reasoning: some features in the work of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center / Harold Garfinkel -- The Search for help: no one to turn to / Harvey Sacks -- Japanese adolescent suicide and social structure / Mamoru Iga -- Suicide: a public health problem / Louis I. Dublin -- Part III: Psychological and Psychiatric Essays -- Self-destruction and sexual perversion / Avery D. Weisman -- The Components of personal despair / James C. Diggory -- Sigmund Freud on suicide / Robert E. Litman -- Self-poisoning / Neil Kessel -- Crisis, disaster and suicide: theory and therapy / Norman L. Farberow -- The Psychology of fatal accident / Norman Tabachnick -- Suicide among police: a study of 93 suicides among New York City policemen, 1934-1940 / Paul Friedman -- Part IV: Taxonomic and Forensic Essays -- Multiple determinants of suicide / Lawrence S. Kubie -- The Forensic pathologist and the multi-disciplinary approach to death / Theodore J. Curphey -- The Suicidal life space: attempts at reconstruction from suicide notes / Kresten Bjerg -- Can a mouse commit suicide? / Halmuth H. Schaefer -- Sleep and self-destruction: a phenomenological study / Edwin S. Shneidman.

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