- Paperback: 206 pages
- Publisher: Australian Academic Press (1 Feb 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1921513373
- ISBN-13: 978-1921513374
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 756,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In this remarkable book, Professor Diego De Leo, distinguished Italian psychiatrist and world leading researcher into suicide prevention, takes us on a journey to the edge of reason and through into the light of salvation. We hear the voices of desperate traumatised people pushed to the limit of suicide who, via a stroke of fate, had their lives spared. We also hear from others left behind after suicide. Their personal stories told in the form of letters to Diego reveal much about the human spirit - its ability to find a way back from the darkest of places where everything seems lost. As Diego himself explains this is not a manual on psychopathology but instead a very human look at the deep complexities of suicidal behaviour and the struggle for psychological science to understand this worst of human tragedies. While sometimes taken in a coldly rational way, the decision to commit suicide is one built out of years of living. As such, Diego allows the reader to follow each of the 12 life stories in rich personal detail, adding his own interpretations and comments as a roadmap to guide the reader on the many messages these stories reveal.
About the Author
Diego de Leo is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention at Griffith University, Brisbane, where he also directs the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention. He is a graduate of the University of Padua School of Medicine (Italy), where he specialised in psychiatry. He obtained his PhD in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Leiden (the Netherlands) and was awarded a Doctor of Science for his work on suicide and psychogeriatrics. Winner of several international awards for research and professional practice, Professor de Leo is Past President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and cofounder and Past President of the International Academy for Suicide Research. Prof. De Leo has been the initiator of the World Suicide Prevention Day. Widely published, he is Editor-in-Chief of the journal CRISIS. Turning Points is his first book for a general audience.
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This review is from: Turning Points: An Extraordinary Journey into the Suicidal Mind (Paperback)
This book is written by extra ordinary individuals for ordinary people. If you are interested in the psyche of indiviuals who have walked a very painful path and arrived stonger at the other end, this is for you. I found the book inspirational and at the same time instructive and very readable. It has lifted the veil for me in terms of understanding the suicidal mind.
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best present for some in need,
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This review is from: Turning Points: An Extraordinary Journey into the Suicidal Mind (Paperback)
My friend was in need of some help that this book gave her.. It came highly recommended by her social worker
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By Ellen Heathwood - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Turning Points: An Extraordinary Journey into the Suicidal Mind (Paperback)
Turning Points provides a wonderful insight into people's experience of suicide from a number of different perspectives. There are so many myths and misconceptions about suicide that in the community which causes people to struggle with the concept of what would make someone attempt suicide. I regularly run a mental health awareness course to people in my community and one of the topics we cover is suicide. Since reading your book I always take a copy with me and recommend it to all participants. This book is set out in a way that makes it accessible to everyone from Mental Health Professionals through to the general public. I highly recommend it! Thank you Dr De Leo!
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