Suicide and the Self: A Discourse Analysis Approach to Self-Narratives of Suicide [Hardcover]

This book centers on self-accounts of suicidal behavior, using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to offer a qualitative perspective within current suicidology and suicide prevention research.

Chapter 1. Suicide and the Self

Chapter 2. Self in Suicide

Chapter 3. Self and Agency

Chapter 4. Romanticisation of Suicide

Chapter 5. Self in Interaction

Chapter 6. Parents and Suicide

Chapter 7. Legacy of the Self

Chapter 8. The Emotional Self

Chapter 9. Conclusions

Index

Dariusz GalasiDski is a Professor in the Institute of Journalism at the University of Wroclaw, Poland.

Justyna Zi?Bkowska is an Associate Professor at the Department of Clinical Psychology, SWPS University, Poland.

This book centres on self-accounts of suicidal behavior, using a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach to offer a qualitative perspective within current suicidology and suicide prevention research.

Suicide and the Self: A Discourse Analysis Approach to Self-Narratives of Suicide is the first qualitative study to explore suicide through the eyes of the person experiencing it. The volume is grounded in foundational CDA concepts, which view social reality as constructed through language and draw on data from real peoples writings, interviews, visual representations, and farewell letters to understand the discursive resources and linguistic patterns in these narratives from varied temporal perspectives.

By focusing on how individuals construct their own stories, GalasiDski and Zi?Bkowska show how a discourse analytic approach can enrich suicidological research and inform suicide prevention efforts. This book is essential reading for scholars in suicidologló%