A special scar : the experience of people bereaved by suicide / Alison Wertheimer.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2001.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 296p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415220262 (hbk.) :
- 9780415220279 (pbk.) :
- 0415220270 (pbk.) :
- Suicide victims -- Great Britain -- Family relationships
- Bereavement
- Suicide -- Great Britain
- Mental health counseling
- Bereavement -- Psychological aspects
- Suicide
- Bereavement -- Case studies
- Health and Wellbeing
- Social counselling & advice services
- Psychotherapy
- Sociology: death & dying
- Coping with death & bereavement
- 362.2830941 WER
- BF575.G7
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Previous ed.: London : Routledge, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1 Introduction: suicide - an introduction; survivors of suicide. Part 2 Aspects of suicide bereavement; meeting the survivors; when the suicide happens; looking back; why did it happen?; the search for understanding; the inquest; funerals; facing suicide as a family; the impact of suicide on individual family members; facing the world; looking for support; facing the feelings; finding a way through; meeting the needs of survivors; groups for people bereaved by suicide; counselling people bereaved by suicide; relevant organisations; the people interviewed for the book.
Designed to appeal to a wide general as well as a professional readership, this work looks at the stigma surrounding suicide and offers practical help for survivors, relatives and friends of people who have taken their own life.