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The fascination of suicide; fads and fashions in psychiatry; the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) and its influence on society; the dominion and dominance of the biomedical model of suicide and mental illness; an introduction to critical suicide studies and its agendas.
… and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, … Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain
—John Keats: ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (1819)
To die—to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ‘tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d.
—Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1
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The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Victoria) .
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One can readily access online the notorious case of Carrie Buck , compulsorily sterilised under the state of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924. She was sterilised as feeble-minded, despite her school grades showing that she wasn’t.
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Solnit (2009: 219) writing on how communities cohere after disaster, quotes a psychologist writing to the New York Times: ‘The public should be very concerned about medicalizing what are human reactions’.
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In 2007, the FDA admitted that ‘SSRIs can cause madness at all ages and that the drugs are very dangerous’: see ‘Antidepressants and murder: case not closed’, BMJ (2017) 358 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3697 (Published 02 August, cite this as: BMJ 2017; 358: j3697).
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Tatz, C., Tatz, S. (2019). Depressing Thoughts. In: The Sealed Box of Suicide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28159-5_3
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