The Resource Teenage suicide notes : an ethnography of self-harm, Terry Williams
Teenage suicide notes : an ethnography of self-harm, Terry Williams
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The item Teenage suicide notes : an ethnography of self-harm, Terry Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide may be uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become an epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide Notes, the sociologist Terry Williams pours over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives. Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with objective sociological analysis, adds a clarifying dimension to the fickle and often frustrating behavior of adolescents. Williams reads between the lines of his subjects' seemingly straightforward reflections on alienation, agency, euphoria, and loss, and investigates how this cocktail of emotions can create an overwhelming and impossible desperation. Rather than treat these notes as exceptional examples of self-expression, Williams situates them at the center of teenage life, linking them to incidents of abuse, violence, depression, anxiety, religion, peer pressure, sexual identity, and family dynamics. He captures the currents that turn self-destruction into an act of self-determination, which also allows him to propose more effective solutions to resolving the suicide crisis."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 254 pages)
- Contents
-
- Little girl lost: Kyra
- The fighter: Enoch
- Overload: Candy
- The last stand: David
- Homo: Tucker
- Escaping death: Gita
- Shock jock: boots
- Cutter: Jill
- On the road: Cody
- Born-again virgin: Gabriella
- Afterword
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1: Ipe and Brownson
- Appendix 2: Enoch and his brother
- Isbn
- 9780231542500
- Label
- Teenage suicide notes : an ethnography of self-harm
- Title
- Teenage suicide notes
- Title remainder
- an ethnography of self-harm
- Statement of responsibility
- Terry Williams
- Subject
-
- Adolescent psychology -- United States
- Electronic books
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Suicide
- Psychology, Adolescent
- Self-Injurious Behavior -- ethnology
- Self-destructive behavior
- Self-destructive behavior -- United States
- Self-mutilation
- Self-mutilation -- United States
- Suicide -- ethnology
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior -- United States
- United States
- Adolescent
- Adolescent psychology
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Reading the confessions of a teenager contemplating suicide may be uncomfortable, but we must do so to understand why self-harm has become an epidemic, especially in the United States. What drives teenagers to self-harm? What makes death so attractive, so liberating, and so inevitable for so many? In Teenage Suicide Notes, the sociologist Terry Williams pours over the writings of a diverse group of troubled youths to better grasp the motivations behind teenage suicide and to humanize those at risk of taking their own lives. Williams evaluates young people in rural and urban contexts and across race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. His approach, which combines sensitive portrayals with objective sociological analysis, adds a clarifying dimension to the fickle and often frustrating behavior of adolescents. Williams reads between the lines of his subjects' seemingly straightforward reflections on alienation, agency, euphoria, and loss, and investigates how this cocktail of emotions can create an overwhelming and impossible desperation. Rather than treat these notes as exceptional examples of self-expression, Williams situates them at the center of teenage life, linking them to incidents of abuse, violence, depression, anxiety, religion, peer pressure, sexual identity, and family dynamics. He captures the currents that turn self-destruction into an act of self-determination, which also allows him to propose more effective solutions to resolving the suicide crisis."--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1948-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Terry M.
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The cosmopolitan life
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Teenagers
- Adolescent psychology
- Self-mutilation
- Self-destructive behavior
- Self-Injurious Behavior
- Suicide
- Adolescent
- Psychology, Adolescent
- PSYCHOLOGY
- Adolescent psychology
- Self-destructive behavior
- Self-mutilation
- Teenagers
- United States
- Label
- Teenage suicide notes : an ethnography of self-harm, Terry Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Little girl lost: Kyra -- The fighter: Enoch -- Overload: Candy -- The last stand: David -- Homo: Tucker -- Escaping death: Gita -- Shock jock: boots -- Cutter: Jill -- On the road: Cody -- Born-again virgin: Gabriella -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Ipe and Brownson -- Appendix 2: Enoch and his brother
- Control code
- ocn967682379
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 254 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231542500
- Lccn
- 2016031347
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 22573/ctt1kn25nq
- 860f3277-c1b8-4765-a66a-63417eeab101
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)967682379
- Label
- Teenage suicide notes : an ethnography of self-harm, Terry Williams
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-246) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- black and white
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Little girl lost: Kyra -- The fighter: Enoch -- Overload: Candy -- The last stand: David -- Homo: Tucker -- Escaping death: Gita -- Shock jock: boots -- Cutter: Jill -- On the road: Cody -- Born-again virgin: Gabriella -- Afterword -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Ipe and Brownson -- Appendix 2: Enoch and his brother
- Control code
- ocn967682379
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 254 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780231542500
- Lccn
- 2016031347
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/ctt1kn25nq
- 860f3277-c1b8-4765-a66a-63417eeab101
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)967682379
Subject
- Adolescent psychology -- United States
- Electronic books
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Suicide
- Psychology, Adolescent
- Self-Injurious Behavior -- ethnology
- Self-destructive behavior
- Self-destructive behavior -- United States
- Self-mutilation
- Self-mutilation -- United States
- Suicide -- ethnology
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior
- Teenagers -- Suicidal behavior -- United States
- United States
- Adolescent
- Adolescent psychology
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