Authors: Kalman J. Kaplan, Matthew B. Schwartz
ISBN-13: 9780802832719, ISBN-10: 0802832717
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: September 2008
Edition: Revised
KALMAN J. KAPLAN is Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinios at Chicago, and at Spertus College of Judaica, and Research Associate in Psychiarty at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center.
MATTHEW B. SCHWARTZ teaches history at Wayne State University.
Combines the disciplines of history and psychology to explain the suicidal element in Western culture and how to treat it.
Illustrations | ||
Foreword | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | ||
I | The Problem of Suicide | 1 |
1 | To Be or Not to Be? The Question of Suicide | 3 |
2 | Suicide in Graeco-Roman Thought | 13 |
3 | Suicide in Jewish and Christian Thought | 29 |
II | Individual Case Studies | 53 |
4 | Cycle versus Development: Narcissus or Jonah | 55 |
5 | Suicide in Greek Tragedy | 69 |
6 | Suicide and Suicide Prevention in the Hebrew Bible | 93 |
III | Family Influences | 105 |
7 | Couples: Polarization versus Growth | 107 |
8 | The Suicide-Promoting Structure of the Greek Family: Oedipus and Electra | 121 |
9 | The Suicide-Preventing Structure of the Hebrew Family: Isaac and Ruth | 137 |
IV | The Prevention of Suicide | 155 |
10 | From Tragedy to Therapy: A Psychology of Hope | 157 |
Bibliography | 165 | |
Index | 175 |