Seasonal variations (Summer stats always higher) and Christian denomination (Catholics almost always lower) are only nonmarital factors which seemed potential correlates. Es un libro dificil de leer, trabajoso pero que vale la pena. Es bastanta agradable la forma en que clasifica una cuestion tan desagradable como el suicidio. Te hace sentirlo más humano. stars. This is a very difficult work to review. There's a lot of good here, but there's also a lot of bad. I'll start with the good. Every 14 minutes, someone in this country commits suicide, and research on ways to reduce that grim statistic appears to be on a plateau. In other words, psychologists don't have much in the way of new ideas - at least, right now - except maybe for what's described as groundbreaking work on the notes that those who kill themselves sometimes leave behind. A team of researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital use computers to break down the language in these messages of despair, in the hope that they can better identify those at risk.

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CONAN: Excuse me. I know we're talking about suicide, we're not supposed to laugh. But every profession has its argot, and so I guess you got to come up with one for yours as well. And the people you're working with, as you're now working with - you're now working with kids who are coming into the hospital and trying out this technique? The first monograph I read focussed on the ambiguous topic of suicide. Emil Durkheim statistically analyses suicide data among different races, religions, segments of society and so on, of course, from the point of view of sociology. He emphasised three main types of suicide: selfish, altruistic and anomalous. The first one is generally clear, but what about the other two? Anomalous suicide occurs as a result of a deep crisis of society, for example, during a revolution or rebellion. Altruistic suicide is a kind of act of self-denial, such a person, unlike a selfish person (who sees no meaning in life), sees meaning outside life itself.PESTIAN: Hopefully we'll start enrolling in early fall and it'll last - enrollment will be about a year to 18 months, and then about a year worth of analysis before we can kind of get to that stage. So it's a couple years away. So, like Plato, Durkheim ends his book in an aporia, in which much delusion is cleared up but we’re not much nearer to a solution. But this analogy is a bit unfair; Plato wrote for the sake of dialectic, while Durkheim wrote to put his sociology into practice. While his data set was flawed and his statistical tools very limited, when it came to deducing arguments and deriving effective hypotheses, Suicide truly is a landmark treatise. CONAN: We're talking with John Pestian, director of the Computational Medicine Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.

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As marriage could be taken as a mark of proper societal integration, it showed that both marriage and having children are actually protective against suicide. Not all political upheavals causes increase of suicide, so again this exemption is apparent, and it confirms the law. A cohesive and animated society permits exchange of sentiments from one to another, leading him to share and enjoy the collective energy to recharge him from his everyday suffering. Researchers have found that quite a few suicide notes are emotionally neutral, giving lists, admonishments, or instructions. Since the book was intended to be a manual, the author did not spend too much space on discussing the reasons and philosophy behind suicide, although he does rhetorically pose the question "Why must one live?". Wataru simply lays out the methods of suicide one by one and then analyzes each of them in detail.It was first published on July 4, 1993, and sold more than one million copies. In the postscript the author says: "To think that at the worst crucial moment one can escape from the pain by committing suicide, one can live for the moment easier. So by distributing this book, I want to make this stifling society an easier place to live. That is the goal of this book. And I never intend to encourage readers to commit suicide." PESTIAN: Yeah, we took old data, and old, it wasn't - people weren't enrolled, but they were data that had been around. One example was where we had 66 notes that Shneidman had put together; 33 were from actual people who had committed and 33 where he went to a local labor union near UCLA and said if you were going to die, if you were going to commit suicide, what would you write? I thought it would be time for more Durkheim. I have only read one of his works, "Elementary Forms of Religious Life" and found that if it were possible for one book to change a life this would be it for me. Durkheim's meticulous reading of primitive religion (his term-"Elementary Forms" was written over 100 years ago) led him, seemingly inexorably, to the conclusion that when we say we worship the divine we are substituting the term divine for our own transcendental nature created when humankind first organized into social groups. It remains impressive for its art more than its science but I can still recall the emotional thrill of first reading his conclusions. "Suicide" is a different text in many ways, most significantly that it was a book written for professionals involved in the still new (very new) discipline of sociology. Durkheim was also deeply preoccupied with the acceptance of sociology as a legitimate science. He refined the positivism originally set forth by Auguste Comte, promoting what could be considered as a form of epistemological realism, as well as the use of the hypothetico-deductive model in social science. For him, sociology was the science of institutions,[citation needed] its aim being to discover structural social facts. Durkheim was a major proponent of structural functionalism, a foundational perspective in both sociology and anthropology. In his view, social science should be purely holistic; that is, sociology should study phenomena attributed to society at large, rather than being limited to the specific actions of individuals.