Just Because You're Suicidal Doesn't Mean You're Crazy: The Psychobiology of Suicide - Softcover

Jensen, Randi J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609440625 ISBN 13: 9781609440626

Publisher: Vertvolta Press, 2012

Synopsis

Randi Jensen has brought us a fascinating and illustrative view of suicide from the inside. After 24 years struggling with her own suicidality she gives us an insightful explanation of how suicidal thought develops over time through endorphin-driven neural pathways.
She does this in a way that compels us to turn each page to learn more, to experience more, to garner more hope and understanding.
Moreover, Jensen gives the world a new way of helping individuals who battle with suicidality--a way that plucks suicide out of the stigma of emotional instability and places it rightfully in the realm of psychobiology. This book is written in a way that you feel you are sitting with her having a deep and heartfelt conversation.

About this title

About the Author

Randi J. Jensen is currently Director of The Soldiers Project Northwest, a nonprofit organization providing free counseling for Afghanistan and Iraq veteran and armed service members and their families. With a specialty in treating suicidality, she is a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a private practice in Seattle, Washington. She is adjunct faculty at several universities and a popular speaker on various mental health subjects. Randi provides instruction in the formation of suicide prevention support groups based on a protocol she developed (Jensen Suicide Prevention Peer Protocol, JSP3(c)-www.jsp3.org). Randi is also a contributing author to the publication "War Trauma and its Wake" (Routledge, Sept. 2012).

Edition details

• Publisher: Vertvolta Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1609440625
• ISBN 13: 9781609440626
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144