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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
As it happens, I am the sort of professor who does not need match-
ing furniture or really hardly any furniture in the office, or for that
matter, an office at all. I could have written this book in my front
yard, and in fact I did write it with my two sons at their computer
three feet from mine, regularly shouting with glee, defeat, or at each
other. I revised it with a cat in my lap whose presence in our family
I protested and lost in a 3–1 vote, and who, ironically, chose me as
her favorite human. I have a sort of disdain for material things, a re-
sult, perhaps, of my dad’s experience, and a corresponding love for
ideas—especially ones that are true, virtuous, and compassionate—
and for the interpersonal, psychological, and other environments
that foster them.
In this connection, I want to thank two organizations that set the
interpersonal and psychological tone for this book. The first is the
Department of Psychology at Florida State University (FSU) in Talla-
hassee, Florida. I have lived in Tallahassee for eight years now, and
periodically hear comments along the lines of “Tallahassee is no New
York City.” And I answer, thank god (no offense to residents of New
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York). Thank god for its lack of pretense, its lushness, and its warmth
(and I’m not just talking about the weather). FSU’s Psychology De-
partment has these same qualities—lush with ideas and interperson-
ally warm. For an academic department, it has a lack of pretense and
absence of interpersonal irritants that, though not total, may be un-
rivalled in an accomplished department. I would particularly like to
mention colleagues and graduate students who were in some way es-
pecially helpful. My own Ph.D. students, past and present, have regu-
larly refined and challenged my thinking—they are Rebecca Bernert,
Jessica Brown, Kelly Cukrowicz, Jill Denoma, Katie Gordon, Daniel
Hollar, Katie Merrill, Marisol Perez, Jeremy Pettit, Nadia Stellrecht,
Kim Van Orden, Zach Voelz, Rheeda Walker, Foluso Williams, Ricki
Wingate, and Tracy Witte. Other Ph.D. students at FSU have also
been engaging, thoughtful, and thought-provoking: Andrea Burns,
Kiara Cromer, Keith Donohue, Kim Driscoll, Jenn Minnix, Maureen
Lyons Reardon, Lorraine Reitzel, Karla Repper, Edelyn Verona, and
Brad White. Supportive colleagues at FSU are abundant; I am espe-
cially grateful to Ellen Berler, Rob Contreras, John Corrigan, Anders
Ericsson, Don Foss, Frank Johnson, Neil Jumonville, Janet Kistner, Al
Lang, Jon Maner, Dianne Tice, and Rick Wagner. Special mention
needs to be made of my closest colleagues and best friends at FSU,
Roy Baumeister, Natalie Sachs-Ericsson, and Brad Schmidt.
The second organization I would like to thank for setting a par-
ticular psychological context for the book is the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. For a professor who tries to live
the life of the mind and who admires and respects excellence across
academic disciplines, a Guggenheim Fellowship is a unique recogni-
tion, inspiration, and responsibility. If my tone in the book becomes
overconfident at times, I apologize up front, and wonder whether it
has to do with the Guggenheim imprimatur, though of course I ab-
solve them of any of my offenses, and thank them for an honor that
has changed me for the better.
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I have received other generosities too. People like Lyn Abramson,
Aaron T. Beck, Jim Coyne, and Pete Lewinsohn were under no obli-
gation to me and yet have set a standard for me and many others on
how to encourage and cultivate younger colleagues. David Rudd and
Lanny Berman have included me in stimulating meetings of the
American Association of Suicidology, allowing me to give a keynote
address on the ideas in this book in April 2004 in Miami. The ques-
tions and discussion that followed my address were the most insight-
ful and hel
pful of any that I have received. I also gave talks on this
material at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, the
University of Georgia, and the Centers for Disease Control and Pre-
vention in Atlanta, and in each case, received encouragement and
thought-provoking reactions. David Rudd deserves special recogni-
tion, as so much of my thinking and work in suicide research have
been in collaboration with him. Others who have supported me
and the development of the ideas in this book in one way or another
are Julianna Baggott, Steve Beach, Sheila Curran, Marty Franklin,
Todd Heatherton, Barry Krakow, Rich McNally, Matt Nock, Ainhoa
Otamendi, Dave Scott, Karen Wagner, Mark Winegardner, and Steve
Wonderlich. Elizabeth Knoll at Harvard University Press deserves her
consensus reputation for excellence and gentle rigor.
Finally, to my mother and sisters, I say, “I’m just so sorry we had to go through that.” To my lovely wife, Graciela Marquina, I say “Te
amo mi amor, siempre.” And as I put this book to bed, it reminds me of the routine that has developed in my family as I put our sons,
Malachi and Zekey, to bed—I say, “I love you, I’m proud of you, and
I’m happy to be your dad.” It is so true.
INDEX
Acquired ability for suicide, 22, 37, 47,
Anorexia nervosa. See Mental disor-
49, 167–168, 187–188; increasing
ders, anorexia nervosa
severity of suicidal behavior, 20–21,
Anterior cingulate cortex, 118
51–52, 54–56, 66–67, 78–83, 150;
Antisocial personality disorder. See
multiple suicide attempters, 22, 57,
Mental disorders, antisocial per-
58–59, 60–68, 75, 150, 207; courage
sonality disorder
and competence for suicide, 49–51,
Anxiety disorders. See Mental disor-
52–53, 55, 59, 63, 80–81; pain toler-
ders, anxiety disorders
ance, 76–78, 161–162, 197–198;
Assertiveness, 62–63, 80–81
mental practice of suicide, 81–82.
Attitudes toward suicide: alarmist po-
See also Habituation to pain and
sition, 18–19; dismissive position,