Analysing Suicide - Reality Myth Fallacy

Philip O'Keeffe, White Magic Studios

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English

Maple Publishers
15 August 2025

Violence in society; Sociology; Abnormal psychology

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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.

By: Philip O'Keeffe
Cover design or artwork by: White Magic Studios
Imprint: Maple Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 676g
ISBN: 9781835384053
ISBN 10: 1835384056
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 15 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active