Night Falls Fast

Understanding Suicide

By: Kay Redfield Jamison

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Paperback | 10 October 2000

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Critical reading for parents, educators, and anyone wanting to understand the tragic epidemic of suicide--"a powerful book that] will change people's lives--and, doubtless, save a few" (Newsday).

The first major book in a quarter century on suicide--and its terrible pull on the young in particular--Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.

From the author of the best-selling memoir, An Unquiet Mind--and an internationally acknowledged authority on depression--Dr. Jamison has also known suicide firsthand: after years of struggling with manic-depression, she tried at age twenty-eight to kill herself. Weaving together a historical and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays on individual suicides, she brings not only her remarkable compassion and literary skill but also all of her knowledge and research to bear on this devastating problem. This is a book that helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to recognize and come to the aid of those at risk, and to comprehend the profound effects on those left behind.

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"Jamison writes with authority, clarity and clinical reserve--. Powerful as her medicine is, her poetic accounting of this dark death is more affecting still."--Baltimore Sun "Jamison brings us face to face with the suicidal mind in a manner so intense and penetrating that, paradoxically, the immersion in despair she offers is a source of great pleasure."--The Washington Post Book World

"This powerful book will change people's lives--and, doubtless, save a few."--Newsday

"A profound and impassioned book--it will stand as the authoritative study of suicide for many years."--William Styron, author of Darkness Visible

"[Jamison] writes not only in fierce opposition to suicide, but also in passionate vindication of life."--The New York Times Book Review

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Prologue	p. 3
Buried Above Ground: An Introduction to Suicide	p. 9
Death Lies Near at Hand: History and Overview	p. 11
To Measure the Heart's Turbulence: Definitions and Magnitudes	p. 26
Essay: This Life, This Death	p. 52
Just Hope Has Gone: Psychology and Psychopathology	p. 71
Take Off the Amber, Put Out the Lamp: The Psychology of Suicide	p. 73
The Burden of Despair: Psychopathology and Suicide	p. 98
What Matters It, If Rope or Garter: Methods and Places	p. 130
Essay: The Lion Enclosure	p. 154
Pangs of Nature, Taints of Blood: The Biology of Suicide	p. 161
A Plunge into Deep Waters: Genetic and Evolutionary Perspectives	p. 163
Death-Blood: Neurobiology and Neuropathology	p. 182
Essay: The Colouring to Events: The Death of Meriwether Lewis	p. 213
Building Against Death: Prevention of Suicide	p. 233
Modest Magical Qualities: Treatment and Prevention	p. 235
As a Society: The Public Health	p. 264
A Half-Stitched Scar: Those Left Behind	p. 290
Epilogue	p. 309
Resources for Information About Suicide, Mental Illness, and Alcohol and Drug Abuse	p. 315
Notes	p. 319
Acknowledgments	p. 415
Index	p. 419
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