Relating Suicide: A Personal and Critical Perspective

by Anne Whitehead

Suicide is seen as exceptional: it is unusual, it results from a pathological state of mind, and it is associated with extraordinary individuals. In reality, suicide is woven into the everyday places that we inhabit, and is more commonplace than we like to think. Writing against the prevailing conception of suicide as exceptional, Whitehead argues that it should be brought in to the ordinary and that its 'ordinariness' is worthy of attention precisely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350192163
• ISBN13: 9781350192164
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.4"