Suicide: Survivors: A Guide for Those Left Behind

Abstract

As its title indicates, Wrobleski has written a self-help manual for persons who are closely related in some way to someone who died by suicide. While it is directed at the general public and, of course, at those who have need for help in relation to the crisis of losing a loved one by suicide, it also contains important information and a point of view that could benefit health care professionals. The volume opens somewhat dramatically with the author's description of her own loss, a married 21-year-old daughter who shot herself. Wrobleski then goes well beyond her personal experience to present a commonsense view of suicide in the United States for those who need to come to terms with it as a personal loss. The self-help approach to problems of every imaginable type has become a kind of American vogue, and I approached this volume with a bit of acquired