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Informationen zum Autor Michael Anestis, PhD, is a leading expert on guns and suicide. He is the Nina Bell Suggs Professor of Psychology and Chair of Clinical Admissions at the University of Southern Mississippi. His research interests include suicide risk factors and firearms, the capacity for suicide, pain response, and emotion dysregulation. He was awarded the 2015 Rising Star award from the Association for Psychological Science. Klappentext In Guns and Suicide, Michael Anestis reframes our perspective on gun violence by shifting the focus to suicide. Guns play a uniquely profound role in American suicide, and Anestis explains how they have this effect¿not by making otherwise non-suicidal people want to die, but by facilitating suicide attempts among suicidal individuals. Zusammenfassung In Guns and Suicide, Michael Anestis reframes our perspective on gun violence by shifting the focus to suicide. Guns play a uniquely profound role in American suicide, and Anestis explains how they have this effect--not by making otherwise non-suicidal people want to die, but by facilitating suicide attempts among suicidal individuals. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART I: The problem Introduction Chapter 1 - The prominent role of guns in American suicide Chapter 2 - Much of what you know about suicide is wrong Chapter 3 - The reason why guns are such a powerful force in American suicide Chapter 4 - Isn't this just a mental health problem, not a gun problem? PART II: The solution Chapter 5 - Lowering the national suicide rate requires means safety Chapter 6 - Legislation as one method for implementing means safety measures for guns Chapter 7 - Means safety and suicide prevention without legislation Chapter 8 - Disarming common concerns about means safety Conclusion
