Analysing Suicide - Reality Myth Fallacy - (Paperback or Softback)

My book examines recent literature on suicide in Northern Ireland, Ireland, Great Britain and elsewhere, in the context of my life experience, my MSc/PhD university dissertations, and ongoing social discourse and public/political narratives about suicide prevention and assisted suicide. I question the validity of a necessary link between suicide and mental disorder, as defined by psychiatry. I contend that suicide represents a multidimensional, multifactorial reality, characterised by many complex factors: individual instability, social context and historical, political and cultural contingency. I argue that each lethal suicidal event is unique in its time, place, situation and circumstance, such that its preliminary actuality may remain largely unknown.

• | Author: Philip O'Keeffe
• | Publisher: Maple Publishers
• | Publication Date: Aug 15, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00512 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1835384056
• | ISBN-13: 9781835384053