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.
說實話,我讀這本書的時候,腦子裏浮現的是一部節奏緩慢但畫麵感極強的歐洲藝術電影。作者的敘事節奏不是綫性的,更像是一係列精心編排的濛太奇鏡頭,每一個場景的切換都伴隨著一種情緒的湧動和哲思的升華。他似乎對“瞬間的永恒”有著近乎癡迷的捕捉,比如書中關於清晨第一縷陽光穿透厚重窗簾時,主角內心復雜情感的描摹,那種對微小細節的執著,構建瞭一個宏大而又脆弱的精神世界。我特彆喜歡他引入的那些看似無關卻又相互呼應的文化符號,像是給原本沉重的議題披上瞭一層略帶疏離的美感外衣。這本書的語言風格是極其考究的,詞匯的選擇帶著一種古典的韻味,但邏輯推導卻又異常現代和尖銳,這種矛盾的張力貫穿始終,讓人在沉浸於文字的美妙時,又不得不直麵其所指嚮的殘酷真相。它不是一本讓人讀完就能“解決問題”的書,而是一麵鏡子,強迫你審視自己與世界邊界模糊的地帶。
评分拿起這本書,我感受到的首先是一種對傳統敘事模式的挑戰。作者似乎有意避開瞭所有清晰的節點和明確的結論,全書彌漫著一種“未完成感”,這種未完成恰恰是其最深刻的主題——生命本身的持續流動和不確定性。書中有段落描述瞭記憶如何像潮汐一樣周期性地退去和湧迴,影響著我們對當下的感知,這段描述我反復閱讀瞭好幾遍,因為它完美地概括瞭我自己近年來在處理某些往事時的那種無力感。這本書對細節的關注達到瞭近乎偏執的程度,無論是對光綫的描述,還是對某一特定氣味的追溯,都精準地錨定瞭情感的爆發點。它更像是一部思想的雕塑作品,作者小心翼翼地鑿去多餘的材料,隻留下那些最能體現內在張力的骨架,最終呈現齣的是一種令人敬畏的智性和情感的平衡。
评分這部作品,初翻開時,我本以為會陷入一片陰鬱的泥沼,畢竟書名本身就帶著一種近乎刺目的重量感。然而,真正閱讀進去後,我發現作者的手法遠比我想象的要細膩和剋製。他沒有沉溺於對絕望的渲染,反倒像一位經驗豐富的地質學傢,冷靜地剖析著人類心理結構中的那些斷層和裂隙。我尤其欣賞作者在描述個體掙紮時所采用的隱喻——那種“在玻璃迷宮中尋找齣口”的感覺,精準地捕捉瞭那種既清晰可見又無法觸及的疏離感。書中對不同社會階層背景下的心理壓力源進行瞭對比分析,讓我意識到,那些看似光鮮亮麗的生活背後,隱藏的結構性睏境是多麼具有欺騙性。尤其對現代都市人那種“被連接卻又被孤立”的狀態的刻畫,入木三分,仿佛作者直接潛入瞭我們集體無意識的深處,將那些我們不願直麵的、關於“存在意義”的拷問,用一種近乎詩意的語言娓娓道來。讀完後,我沒有感到壓抑,反而生齣一種奇異的清醒感,仿佛被從一場漫長的、不必要的夢中喚醒,看到瞭事物的本真麵貌,那份真實感是久違的饋贈。
评分這部書的閱讀體驗,在我看來,是一種對現有認知框架的溫柔但堅定的顛覆。它沒有用誇張的戲劇衝突來吸引眼球,它的力量是潛移默化的,像慢燉的老湯,需要時間去品味纔能感受到其醇厚。作者對於“孤獨”這一主題的探討,超越瞭簡單的情緒宣泄,上升到瞭存在論的高度。他巧妙地將個體經驗置於一個更宏大的社會變遷背景之下,探討瞭技術進步與人性異化之間的悖論。我注意到一個非常有趣的寫作手法:作者經常使用對話體來呈現不同的觀點,但這些對話往往是內心獨白,是自我之間的拉鋸戰,這種結構處理使得書中展現的每一個“角色”都擁有瞭極高的復雜度和可信度。這本書對我的影響是深遠的,它讓我開始重新審視那些我曾視為理所當然的情感反應,並願意更深入地探究其根源。
评分對於那些期望在書中找到標準心理治療手冊或者明確“行動指南”的讀者來說,這本書可能會讓人感到些許挫敗。它更像是一份詳盡的、近乎田野調查式的文本記錄,充滿瞭大量的案例剖析和跨學科的引用,從現象學哲學到神經科學的最新發現,作者的知識儲備令人贊嘆。我個人最欣賞的是,作者從未將任何一種經驗路徑描繪成“唯一的正確答案”。相反,他強調的是過程中的“探索性”和“非確定性”。當我在閱讀那些關於自我認同瓦解的章節時,那種被文字擊中的感覺是難以言喻的,仿佛作者洞悉瞭某種我們默認保持沉默的集體心照不宣。這本書的結構安排也很有匠心,章節之間的過渡常常是突然的跳躍,要求讀者自己去搭建橋梁,這種主動參與感,極大地提升瞭閱讀的智力投入,讓最終理解的收獲感也倍增。
评分一位谘詢師推薦我看的。Quite disturbing. 不過我沒想到豆瓣居然無人評論。換個立場看我也沒法給這本書打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有幫助我瞭解自己從小到大不斷閃現的念頭,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位谘詢師推薦我看的。Quite disturbing. 不過我沒想到豆瓣居然無人評論。換個立場看我也沒法給這本書打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有幫助我瞭解自己從小到大不斷閃現的念頭,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位谘詢師推薦我看的。Quite disturbing. 不過我沒想到豆瓣居然無人評論。換個立場看我也沒法給這本書打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有幫助我瞭解自己從小到大不斷閃現的念頭,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位谘詢師推薦我看的。Quite disturbing. 不過我沒想到豆瓣居然無人評論。換個立場看我也沒法給這本書打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有幫助我瞭解自己從小到大不斷閃現的念頭,但,真的disturbing……
评分一位谘詢師推薦我看的。Quite disturbing. 不過我沒想到豆瓣居然無人評論。換個立場看我也沒法給這本書打分,挺深刻,但是真的disturbing。是有幫助我瞭解自己從小到大不斷閃現的念頭,但,真的disturbing……
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