suicidal behavior

A discussion of teenage suicide, the reasons, the warning signs, the importance of communicating feelings, and the ways the survivors deal with grief.

Presents psychological profiles of eighty severely depressed adolescents who attempted or committed suicide.

Explores motives for suicide among young people and suggests ways to recognize and deal with symptoms of depression. Case histories are presented.

Examines the historic and legal views of suicide, the reasons that people turn to suicide, and how suicide may be prevented.

An autobiographical novel of Esther Greenwood, a brilliant and talented young woman, who goes to New York and begins a descent into mental illness.

Presents the true story of Brent Runyon who at fourteen set himself on fire and sustained burns over eighty percent of his body, and describes the months of physical and mental rehabilitation that followed as he attempted to pull his life together.

Chronicles the mental breakdown of Esther Greenwood--a brilliant, beautiful, talented and successful young woman.

Tells the story of Mary Griffith, who became a crusader for gay and lesbian youth after her homosexual son Bobby's suicide, and the discovery of his diaries, led her to make radical changes in her thinking about homosexuality.