Exit weeping : understanding suicide through the study of famous suicides / / David Lester

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910961568303321
• Autore: Lester David <1942->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2008
• ISBN: 1-62081-493-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (215 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): LesterDavid <1942->
• Disciplina: 616.85/844509
• Soggetti: Suicide; Suicide victims; Suicide - Psychological aspects; Entertainers - Suicidal behavior; Celebrities - Suicidal behavior
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DIANE ARBUS: PHOTOGRAPHER OF FREAKS1 -- FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY -- LAST YEARS -- DISCUSSION -- ELIZABETH CADY STANTON: THE RATIONAL SUICIDE OF AN EARLY FEMINIST -- CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YEARS -- THE BEGINNING OF HER ACTIVISM -- ELIZABETH AS ACTIVIST -- DEATH -- DORA CARRINGTON: IN LOVE WITH A HOMOSEXUAL -- LONDON YEARS -- LIFE WITH LYTTON -- DISCUSSION -- THOMAS CHATTERTON: WRITING UNDER AN ALIAS -- EARLY DAYS -- APPRENTICESHIP -- FREEDOM AND DEATH -- DISCUSSION -- VLADIMIR KOVALEVSKII: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE -- THE FICTITIOUS MARRIAGE -- THE RETURN TO RUSSIA -- DISCUSSION -- CROWN PRINCE RUDOLPH: A PRINCE WITHOUT POWER -- CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE -- COMING OF AGE -- MARRIAGE -- SUICIDE -- DISCUSSION -- KURT COBAIN: FROM NIRVANA TO NIRVANA -- THE END -- COMMENT -- JERZY KOSINSKI: INVENTING A LIFE -- ADOLESCENCE -- EARLY DAYS IN AMERICA -- THE RISE TO FAME -- THE FALL -- COMMENT -- JOSEPH GOEBBELS: HITLER'S FAVORITE -- FINDING HITLER -- HITLER'S GOVERNMENT -- DEFEAT AND SUICIDE -- DISCUSSION -- SIR HENRY DELVES BROUGHTON: THE MURDER SENSATION OF 1941 -- EARLY YEARS -- ; DIANA CALDWELL -- THE TRIAL -- DISCUSSION -- PHIL OCHS: NOT AS SUCCESSFUL AS BOB DYLAN -- COLLEGE DAYS -- NEW YORK CITY -- DETERIORATION -- INSANITY AND SUICIDE -- COMMENT -- VISCOUNT CASTLEREAGH: EVEN PARANOIDS HAVE REAL ENEMIES -- CASTLEREAGH'S IRISH CAREER -- CASTLEREAGH IN ENGLAND -- THE END -- PRIMO LEVI: SURVIVOR OF AUSCHWITZ BUT NOT OLD AGE -- EARLY LIFE -- AUSCHWITZ AND THE JOURNEY HOME -- TESTIFYING -- RETIREMENT AND DEATH -- COMMENT -- THE LUXTONS: BACK TO NATURE -- THE END -- ROBERT MAXWELL: SUICIDE OR MURDER? -- EARLY EVENTS -- THE EARLY CAREER OF ROBERT MAXWELL -- MAXWELL THE MAN -- DANGEROUS INVOLVEMENTS -- FINANCIAL RUIN -- MAXWELL'S DEATH -- COMMENT -- FRANÇOIS GENOUD: BANKER FOR THE NAZIS -- COMMENT.; ELEANOR MARX: DADDY'S GIRL -- LIFE AFTER FATHER -- AFTER ENGELS' DEATH -- COMMENT -- PAUL BERN: HOLLYWOOD MOVIE PRODUCER -- MURDER OR SUICIDE? -- THE THEORY -- VICTOR TAUSK: FREUD'S PUPIL -- VICTOR'S LIFE -- VICTOR'S PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS -- VICTOR'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN -- PRECIPITATING EVENTS -- FREUD AND VICTOR -- THE FINAL EVENTS -- THE FINAL HOURS -- COMMENTS -- POVL BANG-JENSEN: DEATH AT THE UN -- EARLY LIFE -- THE CRISIS -- ANALYSIS -- Paul's Depression -- Tragedy -- STEPHEN WARD: VICTIM OF HYPOCRISY -- EARLY YEARS -- STEPHEN IN LONDON -- CLIVEDEN -- CHRISTINE KEELER -- TRIAL AND SUICIDE -- SIMONE WEIL: A MOST DIFFICULT PERSON -- LIFE AS A TEACHER -- THE TRANSITION -- LONDON AND DEATH -- VIRGINIA WOOLF: ANOTHER BLOOMSBURY SUICIDE -- HER PARENTS AND EARLY YEARS -- ADOLESCENCE AND THE FIRST BREAKDOWN -- ON THEIR OWN AS ADULTS -- MRS. WOOLF -- HER DEATH -- ANALYSIS -- GABRIELLE RUSSIER: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE IN FRANCE -- THE FACTS -- THE AFFAIR -- COMMENTS -- VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY: SOVIET POET -- THE BIRTH OF THE POET -- THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION -- THE END -- O. HOBART MOWRER: PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION -- HOBART'S EARLY LIFE -- HOBART'S DEPRESSIONS -- DISCUSSION -- JO ROMAN: PLANNING A RATIONAL SUICIDE -- EARLY LIFE -- GUIDELINES FOR RATIONAL SUICIDE -- CESARE PAVESE: AN ABSURD VICE -- HIS EARLY LIFE -- HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE -- HIS CAREER -- WOMEN -- DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE -- AN ABSURD VICE -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY: MACHO MAN -- ERNEST'S HOME -- ERNEST'S CHILDHOOD -- PORTENTS OF HIS LATER LIFE-STYLE -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- HIS MARRIAGES -- RELATIONS WITH HIS FAMILY -- RELATIONS WITH FRIENDS -- LITERARY CRITICISM -- ALCOHOLISM AND DEPRESSION -- MENTAL ILLNESS IN HIS FAMILY -- SUICIDE IN ERNEST'S SOCIAL NETWORK -- ACCIDENTS AND ILLNESSES -- FINAL STRESSES -- THE FINAL MONTHS AND THE MAYO CLINIC.; ERNEST AND SUICIDE -- DISCUSSION -- YUKIO MISHIMA: SEPPUKU -- EARLY LIFE WITH GRANDMOTHER -- TEENAGE YEARS -- His Homosexuality -- Mishima and His Mother -- School -- The War -- University -- ADULTHOOD -- Writing -- Family -- MISHIMA'S SUICIDE -- WHY? -- WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- REFERENCES -- JERZY FELIKS URMAN: "I'M NOT EVEN A GROWN-UP -- INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: There have been thousands of scholarly articles written on the topic of suicide, including a few by the author, and the scientific method, combined with statistical analysis, has been applied to studies of the suicide rates of nations (over time and across regions) and to (sometimes large) samples of individuals. This book addresses the question of why people kill themselves, and in order to help clarify this topic, the author presents the background of some famous suicides.; There are papers informing us that suicides peak in the spring, that the majority (but not all) suicides would probably be given a psychiatric diagnosis, that loss of a parent is common in the childhoods of suicides, and many other fascinating results. Yet, when we read a superficial news story or hear of a friend or colleague who committed suicide, we still feel puzzled. Those research findings that we read seem to be neither necessary nor sufficient conditions for someone to commit suicide. The biographers of famous people explore the details of their lives so that we can learn more about them than we do of an ordinary person who commits suicide.