附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-173) and index.
SERIES PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; DEDICATION PAGE; FOREWORD; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CONTENTS; CONSULTANTS; 1 THE BEGINNING; 2 ABOUT SUICIDE NOTES; 3 CONSULTATION BY MORTON SILVERMAN, M.D.; The Suicide Note; Some Curious Contradictions; Going by the Numbers; Nature versus Nurture; A Developmental Perspective; A Psychiatric Perspective; A Final Note; 4 INTERVIEW WITH THE MOTHER; 5 THE IDEA OF A PSYCHOLOGICAL AUTOPSY; 6 INTERVIEW WITH THE FATHER; 7 CONSULTATION BY ROBERT E. LITMAN, M.D.; 8 CONSULTATION BY JEROME MOTTO, M.D.; The Event; The Background; The Problem.
An Etiological PerspectiveA Clinical Perspective; Discussion and Conclusions; 9 CONSULTATION BY NORMAN L. FARBEROW, PH. D.; Why Did Arthur Kill Himself?; Family's Role in Arthur's Suicide; The Compartmentalization of Success; Could Arthur Have Been Saved?; 10 INTERVIEW WITH THE BROTHER; 11 INTERVIEW WITH THE SISTER; 12 CONSULTATION BY JOHN T. MALTSBERGER, M.D.; 13 INTERVIEW WITH THE PAL; 14 CONSULTATION BY RONALD MARIS, PH. D.; 15 INTERVIEW WITH THE EX-WIFE; 16 INTERVIEW WITH THE GIRLFRIEND; 17 INTERVIEW WITH THE PSYCHOTHERAPIST; 18 CONSULTATION BY DAVID RUDD, PH. D.
19 INTERVIEW WITH THE PSYCHIATRIST20 CONSULTATION BY AVERY WEISMAN, M.D.; Suicide Evaluation; What About Arthur?; 21 LETTER TO THE MOTHER; APPENDIX ARTHUR'S SUICIDE NOTE; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
摘要:Shneidman (U. of California at Los Angeles) examines the case of an individual suicide, bringing together interviews with his family and friends, involved professionals, and "consultations" with other psychiatrists specializing in suicide in order to conduct a post-mortem "autopsy" of the psychological state that led to the young man's death
