Product Description
The book begins with an overall view of the characteristic difficulties during adolescence and encompasses wider categories such as: Identity and the concept of Self, correlation between psychopathology and suicide, personal disposition, family and social factors, with considerations on theories, hypotheses and indications from scholars in the field on aspects such as: “the organisation of suicide in the mind of the adolescent and prevention, the contribution of interaction theories, psychology directions, considerations on motives for suicide”. The observation point chosen is that of the centrality of multi-causal aetiology: social, biological and psychological, in suicide. There is no suicidal personality trait but there are areas of vulnerability such as personality disorders, psychiatric problems, psycho-socio and environmental factors, genetic and family elements and biohumoral factors. This book certainly gives important contributions and indications in a psychological and sociological outlook, that are useful not only theoretically but also because they can “translate” onto an operative level as an added and tentative element at the disposal of those who are interested at a personal and cultural level and of those who already work in this field and in research and are on the lookout for further work dealing specifically with this difficult problem.