Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of death for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the United States, raising alarms across the nation about the rising tide of hopelessness seen in our young people. It is a taboo subtext to our successes and our happiness, a dark issue that is often euphemized, avoided, and little understood. In our century, psychology and psychiatry alike have attempted to understand, prevent, and medicalize these phenomena. But they have failed, argues Dr. Edwin Shneidman, because they have lost sight of the plain language, the ordinary everyday words, the pain and frustrated psychological needs of the suicidal individual. In The Suicidal Mind, Dr. Shneidman has written a groundbreaking work for every person who has ever thought about suicide or knows anybody who has contemplated it. The book brims with insight into the suicidal impulse and with helpful suggestions on how to counteract it. Shneidman presents a bold and simple premise: the main cause of suicide is psychological pain or "psychache." Thus the key to preventing suicide is not so much the study of the structure of the brain, or the study of social statistics, or the study of mental diseases, as it is the direct study of human emotions. To treat a suicidal individual, we need to identify, address, and reduce the individual's psychache. Shneidman shares with the reader his knowledge, both as a clinician and researcher, of the psychological drama that plays itself out in the suicidal mind through the exploration of three moving case studies. We meet Ariel, who set herself on fire; Beatrice, who cut herself with the intent to die; and Castro, a young man who meant to shoot his brains out but survived, horribly disfigured. These cases are presented in the person's own words to reveal the details of the suicidal drama, to show that the purpose of suicide is to seek a solution, to illustrate the pain at the core of suicide, and to isolate the common stressor in suicide: frustrated psychological needs. Throughout, Shneidman offers practical, explicit maneuvers to assist in treating a suicidal individual--steps that can be taken by concerned friends or family and professionals alike. Suicide is an exclusively human response to extreme psychological pain, a lonely and desperate solution for the sufferer who can no longer see any alternatives. In this landmark and elegantly written book, Shneidman provides the language, not only for understanding the suicidal mind, but for understanding ourselves. Anyone who has ever considered suicide, or knows someone who has, will find here a wealth of insights to help understand and to prevent suicide.
这部书的阅读体验,在我看来,是一种对现有认知框架的温柔但坚定的颠覆。它没有用夸张的戏剧冲突来吸引眼球,它的力量是潜移默化的,像慢炖的老汤,需要时间去品味才能感受到其醇厚。作者对于“孤独”这一主题的探讨,超越了简单的情绪宣泄,上升到了存在论的高度。他巧妙地将个体经验置于一个更宏大的社会变迁背景之下,探讨了技术进步与人性异化之间的悖论。我注意到一个非常有趣的写作手法:作者经常使用对话体来呈现不同的观点,但这些对话往往是内心独白,是自我之间的拉锯战,这种结构处理使得书中展现的每一个“角色”都拥有了极高的复杂度和可信度。这本书对我的影响是深远的,它让我开始重新审视那些我曾视为理所当然的情感反应,并愿意更深入地探究其根源。
评分拿起这本书,我感受到的首先是一种对传统叙事模式的挑战。作者似乎有意避开了所有清晰的节点和明确的结论,全书弥漫着一种“未完成感”,这种未完成恰恰是其最深刻的主题——生命本身的持续流动和不确定性。书中有段落描述了记忆如何像潮汐一样周期性地退去和涌回,影响着我们对当下的感知,这段描述我反复阅读了好几遍,因为它完美地概括了我自己近年来在处理某些往事时的那种无力感。这本书对细节的关注达到了近乎偏执的程度,无论是对光线的描述,还是对某一特定气味的追溯,都精准地锚定了情感的爆发点。它更像是一部思想的雕塑作品,作者小心翼翼地凿去多余的材料,只留下那些最能体现内在张力的骨架,最终呈现出的是一种令人敬畏的智性和情感的平衡。
评分说实话,我读这本书的时候,脑子里浮现的是一部节奏缓慢但画面感极强的欧洲艺术电影。作者的叙事节奏不是线性的,更像是一系列精心编排的蒙太奇镜头,每一个场景的切换都伴随着一种情绪的涌动和哲思的升华。他似乎对“瞬间的永恒”有着近乎痴迷的捕捉,比如书中关于清晨第一缕阳光穿透厚重窗帘时,主角内心复杂情感的描摹,那种对微小细节的执着,构建了一个宏大而又脆弱的精神世界。我特别喜欢他引入的那些看似无关却又相互呼应的文化符号,像是给原本沉重的议题披上了一层略带疏离的美感外衣。这本书的语言风格是极其考究的,词汇的选择带着一种古典的韵味,但逻辑推导却又异常现代和尖锐,这种矛盾的张力贯穿始终,让人在沉浸于文字的美妙时,又不得不直面其所指向的残酷真相。它不是一本让人读完就能“解决问题”的书,而是一面镜子,强迫你审视自己与世界边界模糊的地带。
评分对于那些期望在书中找到标准心理治疗手册或者明确“行动指南”的读者来说,这本书可能会让人感到些许挫败。它更像是一份详尽的、近乎田野调查式的文本记录,充满了大量的案例剖析和跨学科的引用,从现象学哲学到神经科学的最新发现,作者的知识储备令人赞叹。我个人最欣赏的是,作者从未将任何一种经验路径描绘成“唯一的正确答案”。相反,他强调的是过程中的“探索性”和“非确定性”。当我在阅读那些关于自我认同瓦解的章节时,那种被文字击中的感觉是难以言喻的,仿佛作者洞悉了某种我们默认保持沉默的集体心照不宣。这本书的结构安排也很有匠心,章节之间的过渡常常是突然的跳跃,要求读者自己去搭建桥梁,这种主动参与感,极大地提升了阅读的智力投入,让最终理解的收获感也倍增。
评分这部作品,初翻开时,我本以为会陷入一片阴郁的泥沼,毕竟书名本身就带着一种近乎刺目的重量感。然而,真正阅读进去后,我发现作者的手法远比我想象的要细腻和克制。他没有沉溺于对绝望的渲染,反倒像一位经验丰富的地质学家,冷静地剖析着人类心理结构中的那些断层和裂隙。我尤其欣赏作者在描述个体挣扎时所采用的隐喻——那种“在玻璃迷宫中寻找出口”的感觉,精准地捕捉了那种既清晰可见又无法触及的疏离感。书中对不同社会阶层背景下的心理压力源进行了对比分析,让我意识到,那些看似光鲜亮丽的生活背后,隐藏的结构性困境是多么具有欺骗性。尤其对现代都市人那种“被连接却又被孤立”的状态的刻画,入木三分,仿佛作者直接潜入了我们集体无意识的深处,将那些我们不愿直面的、关于“存在意义”的拷问,用一种近乎诗意的语言娓娓道来。读完后,我没有感到压抑,反而生出一种奇异的清醒感,仿佛被从一场漫长的、不必要的梦中唤醒,看到了事物的本真面貌,那份真实感是久违的馈赠。
评分一位咨询师推荐我看的。Quite disturbing. 不过我没想到豆瓣居然无人评论。换个立场看我也没法给这本书打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有帮助我了解自己从小到大不断闪现的念头,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位咨询师推荐我看的。Quite disturbing. 不过我没想到豆瓣居然无人评论。换个立场看我也没法给这本书打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有帮助我了解自己从小到大不断闪现的念头,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位咨询师推荐我看的。Quite disturbing. 不过我没想到豆瓣居然无人评论。换个立场看我也没法给这本书打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有帮助我了解自己从小到大不断闪现的念头,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位咨询师推荐我看的。Quite disturbing. 不过我没想到豆瓣居然无人评论。换个立场看我也没法给这本书打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有帮助我了解自己从小到大不断闪现的念头,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位咨询师推荐我看的。Quite disturbing. 不过我没想到豆瓣居然无人评论。换个立场看我也没法给这本书打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有帮助我了解自己从小到大不断闪现的念头,但,真的disturbing……
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