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Night falls fast

Kay R. Jamison

Night falls fast

understanding suicide

by Kay R. Jamison

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Published by Knopf in New York .
Written in

    Subjects:
  • Suicide -- United States,
  • Children -- Suicidal behavior -- United States,
  • Youth -- Suicidal behavior -- United States

  • Edition Notes

    Includes bibliographical references.

    Statementby Kay Redfield Jamison.
    The Physical Object
    Pagination432 p.
    Number of Pages432
    ID Numbers
    Open LibraryOL23243561M
    ISBN 100375401458
    LC Control Number99311227

    Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison Knopf, pp., $ Orthodox opinion will hold that Kay Redfield Jamison's Night Falls Fast is the most compelling discussion of. Get this from a library! Night falls fast: understanding suicide. [Kay R Jamison] -- From the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind: the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, with a particular focus on its terrible pull on the young. Night Falls Fast is both compelling.

    Night Falls Fast is both compelling and timely: in the United States and across the world there has been a frightening surge in suicides committed by children, adolescents and young adults. It is the third major cause of death in to year-olds, and the second in college : Kay Redfield Jamison. ―from NIGHT FALLS FAST: Understanding Suicide () by Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison From the author of the best-selling memoir AN UNQUIET MIND, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in ers: 14K.

    FAST FALLS THE NIGHT. by Julia Keller. BUY NOW FROM to let her love affair go anywhere, and the hopeless poverty and drug abuse surrounding her is getting her down. The night brings more and more reports of overdoses. our editors select the one author and one book they believe to be most worthy of your attention and highlight them in. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide Kay Redfield Jamison, Author Alfred A. Knopf $26 (p) ISBN The book effectively brings suicide out of the closet, gives general readers insight.


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Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular.

Night Falls Fast is /5(4). From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular.

Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide - Kay R. Jamison - Google Books In this book the author dispels the silence and shame that surround the subject of suicide and provides a better /5(6).

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An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison /5(). FAST FALLS THE NIGHT is as real as it gets. One of the book’s many strong points is that it attempts to discuss an issue that is being raised with more and more frequency: that being whether saving habitual drug offenders bringing them back from the brink of death following an overdose is a worthwhile endeavor, particularly for those who routinely put their own lives in danger.

The rest of my life at the time — sports, classes, writing, friends, planning for college — fell fast into a black night. Everything seemed a ridiculous charade to endure; a hollow existence to fake one's way through as best one could.

The rest of my life at the time -- sports, classes, writing, friends, planning for college -- fell fast into a black night. Everything seemed a ridiculous charade to endure; a hollow existence to fake.

Description From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five/5(K).

From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of 15 and Night Can Fall Fast Published by User, 20 years ago This was a wonderfully informative book to help people with mental illness and their families understand what is going on in the by:   Publisher Description From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular.

Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five/5(4). From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.

An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison. From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind, comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five.

An internationally acknowledged authority on depressive illnesses, Dr. Jamison. Night Falls Fast dispels the silence and shame that too often surround suicide; it helps us to understand the suicidal mind, to better recognize the person at risk, and to comprehend the profound and disturbing loss created in those left : Vintage Books.

Night Falls Fast (Book Review) Kay Jamison helps us understand the mystery of self-destruction. By Paul Chance, published March 1, - last reviewed on June 9, ''Night Falls Fast'' braves the impossible topic of suicide. It is at once the most relentless and the most sympathetic book she has produced, written with an edifying urgency that surpasses her.

Suicide rates for Americans un the cohort on which this book focuses, have tripled in the past 45 years. Although it makes no attempt to explain why this is so, this is a superb interdisciplinary look at self-murder. Janison (Psychiatry/Johns Hopkins School of Medicine), author of the bestselling memoir An Unquiet Mind () about her own struggle with manic-depressive illness, here Author: Kay Redfield Jamison.In Night Falls Fast, Jamison dedicates a chapter to American public policy and public opinion as it relates to suicide.

Her second memoir, Nothing Was the Same, examines her relationship with her second husband, the psychiatrist Richard Jed Wyatt, who was Chief of the Neuropsychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health until his Alma mater: University of California, Los Angeles.

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