Self Destruction In The Promised Land
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Self Destruction In The Promised Land
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Author : Howard I. Kushner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Self Destruction In The Promised Land written by Howard I. Kushner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Self Destruction In The Promised Land
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Author : Howard I. Kushner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Self Destruction In The Promised Land written by Howard I. Kushner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Psychology categories.
"A work of subtle insights and of bold illumination, written with persuasive eloquence; it should become a classic in its field."--William Styron "Will rush to the top of the list of important books on psychohistory . . . balanced and provocative . . . it's a blockbuster."--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University "An illuminating overview of the prevailing understanding of suicide over the past 300 years, tracing current theories back, in some cases, to their roots in Puritan New England. [Kushner] shows how the conflicting views of psychology, sociology, and biochemistry emerged and hardened into dogmatic theories within each discipline that impeded cross-pollination. . . . Fascinating stuff."--San Diego Tribune "Outstanding . . . the only work I know that is adequate to the complexity and multidimensionality of suicide, and which genuinely combines, indeed synthesizes, a wide range of disciplinary perspectives into a coherent and satisfying view of the issues. . . . a tour de force."--Joel Kovel, M. D.
Histories Of Suicide
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Author : John C. Weaver
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Histories Of Suicide written by John C. Weaver and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Medical categories.
This interdisciplinary collection of essays assembles historians, health economists, anthropologists, and sociologists, who examine the history of suicide from a variety of approaches to provide crucial insight into how suicide differs across nations, cultures, and time periods.
The Promised Land
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Author : Mary Antin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-06-26
The Promised Land written by Mary Antin and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-26 with Social Science categories.
An extraordinary popular success when it was first published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience. Mary Antin emigrated with her family from the Eastern European town of Polotzk to Boston in 1894, when she was twelve years old. Preternaturally inquisitive, Antin was a provocative observer of the identity-altering contrasts between Old World and New. Her narrative — of universal appeal and rich in its depictions of both worlds — captures a large-scale sociocultural landscape and paints a profound self-portrait of an iconoclast seeking to reconcile her heritage with her newfound identity as an American citizen.
Sadly Troubled History
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Author : John C. Weaver
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2009-04-01
Sadly Troubled History written by John C. Weaver and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Psychology categories.
More people die by suicide each year than by homicide, wars, and terrorist attacks combined. Witnesses and survivors are left perplexed and troubled. Doctors, clinical psychologists, and social workers try to deal with it through their professional routines; sociologists and psychiatrists attempt to provide theoretical explanations of it. In a study of nearly 7000 suicides from 1900 to 1950 in New Zealand and Queensland, Australia, John Weaver documents the challenges that ordinary people experienced during turbulent times and, using witnesses' testimony, death bed statements, and suicide notes, reconstructs individuals' thoughts as they decide whether to endure their suffering. Bridging social and medical history, Weaver presents an intellectual and political history of suicide studies, a revealing construction and deconstruction of suicide rates, a discussion of gender, life stages, and socio-economic circumstances in relation to suicide patterns, reflections on reasoning processes and intent, and society's reactions to suicide, including medical intervention. A Sadly Troubled History marshals thousands of suicide inquests, replete with observations on the anxieties of unemployment, the heartbreak of romantic disappointment, the pain of domestic turmoil, and the torments of mental illness, to demonstrate that history - although, like biochemistry, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry, reliant on remarkable yet imperfect information - can contribute to a better understanding of the suicidal act and its motives.
The Abandoned Ones
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Author : Mark S. Hamm
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 1995
The Abandoned Ones written by Mark S. Hamm and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
An expose of the shocking case of political corruption, human rights violations, and administrative bungling following the 1980 Cuban immigration accord.
The Power To Die
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Author : Terri L. Snyder
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015-08-28
The Power To Die written by Terri L. Snyder and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-28 with History categories.
Acts of suicide by enslaved people carried significant cultural, legal, and political implications in the emerging slave societies of British America and, later, the United States. This study features a wide range of evidence from ship logs and surgeon's journals, legal and legislative records, newspapers, periodicals, novels, and plays, abolitionist print and slave narratives in order to consider the intimate circumstances, cultural meanings, and political consequences of enslaved peoples' acts of self-destruction in the context of early American slavery.
Representations Of Death In Nineteenth Century Us Writing And Culture
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Author : Lucy Frank
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-01-18
Representations Of Death In Nineteenth Century Us Writing And Culture written by Lucy Frank and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
From the famous deathbed scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Little Eva to Mark Twain's parodically morbid poetess Emmeline Grangerford, a preoccupation with human finitude informs the texture of nineteenth-century US writing. This collection traces the vicissitudes of this cultural preoccupation with the subject of death and examines how mortality served paradoxically as a site on which identity and subjectivity were productively rethought. Contributors from North America and the United Kingdom, representing the fields of literature, theatre history, and American studies, analyze the sexual, social, and epistemological boundaries implicit in nineteenth-century America's obsession with death, while also seeking to give a voice to the strategies by which these boundaries were interrogated and displaced. Topics include race- and gender-based investigations into the textual representation of death, imaginative constructions and re-constructions of social practice with regard to loss and memorialisation, and literary re-conceptualisations of death forced by personal and national trauma.
Aberration Of Mind
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Author : Diane Miller Sommerville
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2018-09-25
Aberration Of Mind written by Diane Miller Sommerville and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-25 with History categories.
More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war.
Sorrows Of A Century
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Author : John C. Weaver
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2013-12-01
Sorrows Of A Century written by John C. Weaver and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-01 with History categories.
In Sorrows of a Century, John Weaver describes how personal relationships, work, poverty, war, illness, and legal troubles have driven thousands to despair. His study is set in twentieth-century New Zealand where - in spite of high standards of living and a commitment to social welfare - citizens have experienced the profound losses and stresses of the human condition. Focusing on New Zealand because it has the most comprehensive and accessible coroners' records, Weaver analyzes a staggering amount of information to determine the social and cultural factors that contribute to suicide rates. He examines the country's investigations into sudden deaths, places them within the context of major events and societal changes, and turns to witnesses' statements, suicide notes, and medical records to remark on prevention strategies. His extensive survey of twelve thousand cases also provides an insightful assessment of psychiatry and psychology in the last century. In reviewing the motives and methods of suicide, Weaver points out the complications facing deterrence. Moving beyond the timeless present of the social sciences and the irrationality emphasized in psychology, Sorrows of a Century marshals testimony to highlight the historical context and rational conduct behind suicide.