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Suicide: Closing the Exits

By David Lester , Ronald V. Clarke

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1989
ISBN
0387970045, 9780387970042
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
70 MB (73843432 bytes)
Edition
1989
Pages
130\152
Time added
2023-08-05 19:03:03

Description

Preventing suicide has traditionally been a focus of psychiatric study. Now, in Suicide: Closing the Exits, Drs. Clarke and Lester have established a basis for another methodology for preventing suicide. The authors maintain that eliminating the opportunity for suicide - the removal or restriction of the availability of such devices as drugs, lethal weapons, and carbon monoxide - is an effective preventative strategy. The objection that this theory necessarily results in displacement of opportunity rather than prevention is comprehensibly addressed as well. This book offers a unified theory, whose prediction and resultant findings are often surprising.

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