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Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior

A Sociobiological Perspective

  • 1st Edition - January 28, 1981
  • Author: Denys deCatanzaro
  • Editor: David T. Lykken
  • Language: English
  • Paperback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 3 7 0 6 - 0
  • Hardback ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 1 6 3 8 8 0 - 1
  • eBook ISBN:
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 7 4 0 1 - 0

Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior: A Sociobiological Perspective reviews the status of suicide and other exceptions to the prevailing regularities of behavior. This book… Read more

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Suicide and Self-Damaging Behavior: A Sociobiological Perspective reviews the status of suicide and other exceptions to the prevailing regularities of behavior. This book discusses the apparent anomaly of self-destructive behavior; current incidence of suicide and self-injury; self-destructiveness in other species; and biological fitness and social ecology of suicide. The pro-suicidal gene expression and natural selection; death concept; breakdown of other life-preserving factors with coping failure; and selection processes and altruism are also elaborated. This text likewise covers the chronic self-abuse, risk taking, and self-injurious or self-mutilative behavior. This publication is a good source for anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, and social scientists concerned with self-destructive behavior.