Subtle Suicide: Our Silent Epidemic of Ambivalence About Living (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313380662)

This volume offers a description and analysis of subtle suicide--a psychological condition whose victims don't care if they live or die, and thus act in self-defeating, self-damaging ways.

Over their extensive careers, psychotherapists Michael Church and Charles Brooks have developed the concept of "subtle suicide," a development of risky behavior where the subject does not care if he/she lives or dies. Now, in this urgent and informative new work, Church and Brooks present their findings on a condition that is often misdiagnosed as a symptom of addictive or mood disorders, when in fact subtle suicide the real underlying problem.

Based on thousands of hours of sessions with real clients and filled with dramatic case studies, Subtle Suicide: Our Silent Epidemic of Ambivalence about Living will help professionals, families, and friends to realize when someone may be suffering from subtle suicide. The authors also provide a number of strategies for helping those exhibiting subtle suicidal behavior, including how to react to specific types of comments and how to avoid being pulled into the sufferer's emotional whirlpool.

Author: Michael A. Church, Charles I. Brooks
ISBN-10: 031338066X
ISBN-13: 9780313380662
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2009
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2010
Scitech Book News 09/01/2009 pg. 96