Table of Contents: Preface
1. The Internet in suicide prevention and promotion;pp. 1-12
(Jess G. Fiedorowicz, Raveendra B. Chigurupati; The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA)
2. The Internet: Its role in the occurrence and prevention of suicide;pp. 13-20
(Puneet Narang, Steven B. Lippmann; Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA)
3. The advantages and the disadvantages of the Internet in preventing suicide;pp. 21-40
(Kalmár Sándor; County Hospital, Kecskemét, Hungary)
4. Web-based suicide prevention education: Innovations in research, training, and practice;pp. 41-61
(Paul Quinnett, Aaron Baker; QPR Institute, Spokane, Washington, USA)
5. Improving public health practice in suicide prevention through online training: A case example;pp. 63-79
(Deborah M. Stone, Catherine W. Barber, Marc Posner; Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Boston, MA, USA)
6. Internet resources for preventing suicide;pp. 81-97
(Maurizio Pompili, David Lester, Marco Innamorati,Alberto Forte, Giulia Iacorossi, Giovanni Dominici, Roberto Tatarelli; Sant’Andrea Hospital, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; McLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona, New Jersey, USA; Università Europea di Roma, Italy)
Chapter 7. Preventing suicide through the Internet;pp. 99-115
(Marco Sarchiapone, Sanja Temnik, Vladimir Carli; (University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy; University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia)
Chapter 8. Warning signs for suicide: Safe and effective information delivery online;pp. 117-135
(Michael Mandrusiak; Adler School of Professional Psychology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Chapter 9. A potential source of data in understanding youth suicide - Instant Messages;pp. 137-152
(Paul W.C.Wong, King-Wa Fu, Paul S.F. Yip; Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR, China)
Chapter 10. Internet and emerging suicide method. A case study of contagion of charcoal burning suicides via the Internet;pp. 153-168
(King-Wa Fu, Paul W.C.Wong, Paul S.F. Yip)
Chapter 11. “I am so sick of this life": A semiotic analysis of suicidal messages on the Internet;pp. 169-184
(Itzhak Gilat, Yishai Tobin; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel; The Israeli Association for Emotional First Aid, Israel)
Chapter 12. The Internet and suicide pacts;pp. 185-196
(Sundararajan Rajagopal; South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, Adamson Centre for Mental Health, St. Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom)
Chapter 13. Internet as a healing or killing tool in youth suicide phenomenon;pp. 197-208
(Milica Pejovic Milovancevic, Dusica Lecic Tosevski, Smiljka Popovic Deusic, Zagorka Bradic; Institute of Mental Health, Belgrade, Serbia)
Chapter 14. Exploring self-injury and suicide in relation to self-harm discussion groups on the Internet;pp. 209-220
(Craig D. Murray, Jenny Shilton Osborne; Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom)
Chapter 15. “Across the street – not down the road” - staying alive through deliberate self-harm;pp. 221-232
(Inger Ekman, Stig Söderberg; Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden)
Chapter 16. Borderline personality, contagion, and the Internet;pp. 233-242
(Randy A. Sansone, Lori A. Sansone; Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio; Kettering Medical Center, Kettering, Ohio; Primary Care Clinic, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, USA)
Chapter 17. Information for crisis intervention and suicide prevention resources for individuals with substance use disorders on the Internet;pp. 243-253
(Barbara Schneider, Kristin Grebner; Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Chapter 18. Effect of mass media on suicidal behavior in patients with psychotic disorders;pp. 255-272
(Eduardo J. Aguilar, Soledad Jorge, Ana Rubio, Samuel G. Siris,
Clinical University Hospital, Valencia, Spain; Zucker-Hillside Hospital, North Shore - Long Island Jewish Health System. Glen Oaks, New York, USA)
Chapter 19. The use of the Internet for research on suicides in the elderly;pp. 273-283
(Ajit Shah, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom)
Chapter 20. For better or for worse? Suicide and the Internet in world today;pp. 285-294
(Wally Barr, Maria Leitner, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Chapter 21. Media suicide-reports, Internet use and the incidence of suicides in Japan;pp. 295-305
(Akihito Hagihara, Takeru Abe; Kyushu University Graduate School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan)
Chapter 22. Internet-associated suicide in Japan;pp. 307-317
(Masahito Hitosugi; Dokkyo Medical University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan)
Chapter 23. Hard-to-reach populations and stigmatized topics: Internet-based mental health research for Japanese men who are gay, bisexual, or questioning their sexual orientation;pp. 319-332
(Yasuharu Hidaka, Don Operario; Kansai University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Awaji, Japan; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA)
Chapter 24. Suicide in China in the era of the Internet;pp. 333-353
(Samuel Law, XueZhu Huang, University of Toronto, Canada; Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China)
Chapter 25. Internet communication about assisted or "Rational" suicide: Legal and ethical considerations for practice;pp. 355-371
(Thomas J. Rankin, Elena S. Yakunina, Jessica M. Richmond, James L. Werth, Jr; The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA)
Chapter 26. Can suicide be quantified and categorized?;pp. 373-389
(Said Shahtahmasebi; The Good Life Research Centre Trust, Rangiora. North Canterbury, New Zealand)
Chapter 27. Mental illness and suicide;pp. 391-401
(Jiunn Yew Thong, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore)
Chapter 28. The concept of post-traumatic mood disorder, suicidal behavior in war veterans and possible use of Internet-based therapies in the treatment of war veterans with posttraumatic mood disorder;pp. 403-413
(Leo Sher; Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York, USA)
Chapter 29. Internet Suicide Phenomenon in Japan;pp. 415-426
(Masahito Fushimi; Akita Prefectural Mental Health & Welfare Center, Akita City, Japan)
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