A special scar : the experiences of people bereaved by suicide
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TextLondon/New York Tavistock/Routledge c1991Description: xix, 234p.; bibliog. refs.; indicesContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415017637
- HV6555.G7 W47 1991
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Part 1 - Introduction. 1 Suicide: an introduction. 2 Survivors of suiciide. Part 2 - Aspects of suicide bereavement. 3 Meeting the survivors. 4 When the suicide happens. 5 Looking back. 6 Why did it happen? The search for understanding. 7 The inquest. 8 Funerals. 9 Facing suicide as a family. 10 The impact of suicide on individual family members. 11 Facing the world. 12 Looking for support. 13 Facing the feelings. 14 Finding a way through. Part 3 - Looking to the future. 15 Meeting the needs of survivors. Appendix A: Relevant organizations. Appendix B: Information on people interviewed for the book
'...looks in detail at the stigma surrounding suicide and offers practical help for survivors, relatives and friends of people who have taken their own life. Fifty bereaved people tell their own stories, showing us that, by not hiding the truth from themselves and others, they have been able to learn to live with suicide.'
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