international association for suicide prevention congress 1997 adelai

The proceedings of the March 1997 conference contain 39 contributions, including tributes to two individuals who have made outstanding contributions to suicide research and prevention: Norman Farberow and Erwin Stengel. The 100th anniversary of the publication of Emile Durkheim's Le Suicide is celebrated with a Durkheim Oration. Other topics include a nomenclature for suicidology; familial risk factors for adolescent suicide; suicides in Australia; suicide among the Canadian Inuit; suicides in police custody in the Netherlands; depression and attempted suicide; and suicide prevention on the internet. Abstracts for all 150 papers presented at the conference are included. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.