Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide - Hardcover

Jamison, Kay Redfield

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375401458 ISBN 13: 9780375401459

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of An Unquiet Mind comes an incisive study of the growing epidemic of suicide among young people, drawing on the author's firsthand battle with severe manicdepression and attempted suicide to reveal the psychological, medical, and biological aspects of selfinflicted death. 175,000 first printing. Tour.

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About the Author

Kay Redfield Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is the author of the national best seller <b>An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness</b> and co-author of the standard medical textbook on manic-depressive illness. She is also the author of <b>Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament</b>, as well as more than a hundred scientific papers about mood disorders, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, and suicide. Dr. Jamison, formerly the director of the UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic, is the recipient of numerous national and international scientific awards, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's Research Award. She is, as well, Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Dr. Jam

From the Inside Flap

t-selling author of <b>An Unquiet Mind</b>: the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, with a particular focus on its terrible pull on the young. <b>Night Falls Fast</b> is both compelling and timely: in the United States and across the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. It is the third major cause of death in 19- to 24-year-olds, and the second in college students. Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, an internationally recognized authority on depressive illnesses and their treatment, knows this subject firsthand. At the age of 28, after years of struggling with manic-depression, she attempted to kill herself. Her survival marked the beginning of a life's work to investigate both mental illness and self-inflicted death. <br> <br>Weaving together a psychological and scientific exploration of the subject with personal essays about individual suici

Edition details

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375401458
• ISBN 13: 9780375401459
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432