Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior. A Sociobiological Perspective

✍ Scribed by Denys deCatanzaro and David T. Lykken (Auth.)

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: A Series of Monographs, Texts, and Treatises, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Preface, Pages ix-x
1 - The Apparent Anomaly of Self-Destructive Behavior, Pages 1-11
2 - The Current Incidence of Suicide and Self-Injury, Pages 13-23
3 - Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective, Pages 25-38
4 - Self-Destructiveness in Other Species, Pages 39-45
5 - Biological Fitness and the Social Ecology of Suicide, Pages 47-67
6 - Cultural Evolution and Suicide, Pages 69-81
7 - Stress, Pathology, and Suicide, Pages 83-93
8 - Coping Failure, Senescence, Gene Expression, and Suicide, Pages 95-108
9 - Altruism and Suicide, Pages 109-123
10 - Suicide, Physiology, and Behavioral Predispositions, Pages 125-138
11 - Ethics and Suicide, Pages 139-146
12 - Limitations and Qualifications, Pages 147-155
13 - Suicide: A Synthesis, Pages 157-164
14 - Parasuicide and Suicide, Pages 165-174
15 - Chronic Self-Abuse, Risk Taking, and Other Self-Damaging Behavior, Pages 175-190
16 - Self-Injurious or Self-Mutilative Behavior, Pages 191-206
17 - Toward an Expansion of Research Paradigms, Pages 207-213
References, Pages 215-234
Author Index, Pages 235-242
Subject Index, Pages 243-246