Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss

Whether you are struggling with fresh grief at a loved one’s death by suicide or your loss happened years ago, you should know that you are not alone. 5 million Americans are affected—directly or indirectly—by this tragedy each year. And it sends us on a lifelong search for answers, both to the practical questions and the deepest question of all: Why? In this definitive guide book, Michael F. Myers, MD, a leading psychiatrist, and Carla Fine, author of the acclaimed No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One, combine their perspectives as a physician and a survivor to offer compassionate and practical advice to anyone affected by suicide.

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Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss

Whether you are struggling with fresh grief at a loved one’s death by suicide or your loss happened years ago, you should know that you are not alone. 5 million Americans are affected—directly or indirectly—by this tragedy each year. And it sends us on a lifelong search for answers, both to the practical questions and the deepest question of all: Why? In this definitive guide book, Michael F. Myers, MD, a leading psychiatrist, and Carla Fine, author of the acclaimed No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One, combine their perspectives as a physician and a survivor to offer compassionate and practical advice to anyone affected by suicide.

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Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss

Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss

by Michael F. Myers, Carla Fine
Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss

Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss

by Michael F. Myers, Carla Fine

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Overview

Whether you are struggling with fresh grief at a loved one’s death by suicide or your loss happened years ago, you should know that you are not alone. 5 million Americans are affected—directly or indirectly—by this tragedy each year. And it sends us on a lifelong search for answers, both to the practical questions and the deepest question of all: Why? In this definitive guide book, Michael F. Myers, MD, a leading psychiatrist, and Carla Fine, author of the acclaimed No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One, combine their perspectives as a physician and a survivor to offer compassionate and practical advice to anyone affected by suicide.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781592402281
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/07/2006
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 77,641
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 - 14 Years

About the Author

A former member of the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Michael F. Myers is one of the world's leading clinicians in the field of suicide. He is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. Carla Fine's numerous books include the acclaimed No Time to Say Goodbye, a memoir written in the aftermath of her husband's suicide. She has appeared on national television shows.

Table of Contents

Touched by SuicideForeword
by Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.

Introduction
Making Sense of Suicide

Part One
What Happened? The Aftermath of Suicide

1. The Devastation of Suicide
2. Searching for Reasons

Part Two
What Can I Do? Practical Suggestions for Healing

3. Protecting Your Health
4. Keeping Your Family Together
5. Telling Your Children
6. Coping with Specific Circumstances
7. Reaching Out for Support
8. Getting Help from Mental Health Professionals

Part Three
How Can I Go On? Finding Meaning after Suicide

9. Suicide, Religion, and Spirituality
10. Life-Preserving Ingishts into Suicide and Attempted Suicide
11. Erasing the Stigma of Suicide

Conclusion
Breaking the Silence, Easing the Pain
Appendix A: Resource Directory
Appendix B: Bibliography
Index

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