Why do people commit suicide? How do cultural and social factors come into play in individual cases? A special issue of the acclaimed journal "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior," this volume aims to advance prevention efforts in the United States and around the world by exploring the meaning and prevalence of suicide from a multicultural perspective. Chapters, from leading international experts, comprise both clinical case studies and broader empirical investigations. --- from the publisher Table of Contents
I. Individual Perspectives
1. The Adolescent: The Individual in Cultural Perspective, Berman
2. Rick: A Suicide of a Young Adult, Leenaars
3. Culture and Ego-Ideal in Suicide: An Adult Case, Maltsberger
4. Being Suicidal and Elderly in Changing Times: A Case History, Richman
5. Social Suicide, Maris
II. Cultural Perspectives
6. Suicide in America: A Nation of Immigrants, Lester
7. Suicide: The Scourge of Native American People, EchoHawk
8. African-American Suicide: A Cultural Paradox, Gibbs
9. Suicide in San Francisco, CA: A Comparison of Caucasian and Asian Groups, 1987 1994, Shiang, Blinn, Bongar, Stephens, Allison, and Schatzberg
10. Suicidality Among Acculturating Mexican Americans: Current Knowledge and Directions for Research, Hovey and King
III. International Perspectives
11. Suicide in an International Perspective, Lester
12. Suicide in Canada with Special Reference to the Difference Between Canada and the United States, Sakinofsky and Leenaars
13. Perspectives: Suicide in Europe, Schmidtke
14. Culture and Suicide: From a Japanese Psychiatrist's Perspective, Takahashi
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