Description
| Product ID: | 9781316602904 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology |
| Title: | The Neuroscience of Suicidal Behavior |
| Authors: | Author: Kees van Heeringen |
| Page Count: | 286 |
| Subjects: | Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Analytical and Jungian psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Occupational and industrial psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychology: emotions, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Clinical psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Abnormal psychology, Psychology: emotions, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Clinical psychology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This book offers an accessible account of the neuroscience behind suicidal behavior and its potential for prevention. Neuroscience opens up opportunities to dispel myths that continue to hinder suicide prevention by helping people to understand suicide and providing effective prevention methods. Nearly one million people take their own lives each year world-wide - however, contrary to popular belief, suicide can be prevented. While suicide is commonly thought to be an understandable reaction to severe stress, it is actually an abnormal reaction to regular situations. Something more than unbearable stress is needed to explain suicide, and neuroscience shows what this is, how it is caused and how it can be treated. Professor Kees van Heeringen describes findings from neuroscientific research on suicide, using various approaches from population genetics to brain imaging. Compelling evidence is reviewed that shows how and why genetic characteristics or early traumatic experiences may lead to a specific predisposition that makes people vulnerable to triggering life events. Neuroscientific studies are yielding results that provide insight into how the risk of suicide may develop; ultimately demonstrating how suicide can be prevented. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-08-23 |
