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Feb 21, 2006 · November of the Soul is a comprehensive study of suicide, exploring it from psychological, sociological, medical, historical and legal angles and probably other angles I can't think of at the moment. In addition to being a very fine work of scholarship, with extensive notes and bibliography, it was very engagingly written.
Apr 15, 1992 · The Enigma of Suicide: A Timely Investigation into the Causes, the Possibilities for Prevention and the Paths to Healing Paperback – April 15, 1992 by George Howe Colt (Author) 3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
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The Enigma of Suicide. George Howe Colt. Simon and Schuster, 1992 - Psychology - 575 pages. With deep compassion and humanity, George Howe Colt helps us understand how and why suicide happens and what we can do to help. "The Enigma of Suicide" combines powerful case histories with a fascinating, multidisciplinary survey of current knowledge to ...
Feb 21, 1991 · 7 books42 followers. George Howe Colt is the bestselling author of November of the Soul The Enigma of Suicide and The Big House, which was a National Book Award finalist and a New York Times notable book. He is married to the American author Anne Fadiman and lives with his family in Western Massachusetts.
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Feb 21, 2006 · Simon and Schuster, Feb 21, 2006 - Psychology - 640 pages. Written with the same graceful narrative voice that made his bestselling National Book Award finalist The Big House such a success, George Howe Colt's November of the Soul is a compassionate, compelling, thought-provoking, and exhaustive investigation into the subject of suicide.
Reviews the book, The Enigma of Suicide. G. H. Colt brings the era of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to life through a series of journalistic vignettes and anecdotes about suicide and the suicide prevention movement. That movement Colt implies, was given its realistic permissiveness by the zeitgeist and the beneficent attitudes toward mental health and large government programs of the Kennedy and ...
An investigation into the perplexing and painful problem of suicide examines the causes and consequences of suicide in America, assesses possible prevention measures, and discusses approaches to healing for those touched by the deaths of loved ones.
