Suicide is a perplexing human behavior that remains among the leading causes of death worldwide, responsible for more deaths each year than all wars, genocide, and homicide combined. Although suicide and other forms of self-injury have baffled scholars and clinicians for thousands of years, the past few decades have brought significant leaps in our understanding of these behaviors.

This volume provides a comprehensive summary of the most important and exciting advances in our understanding of suicide and self-injury and our ability to predict and prevent it. Comprised of a formidable who's who in the field, the handbook covers the full spectrum of topics in suicide and self-injury across the lifespan, including the classification of different self-injurious behaviors, epidemiology, assessment techniques, and intervention. Chapters probe relevant issues in our society surrounding suicide, including assisted suicide and euthanasia, suicide terrorism, overlap between suicidal behavior and interpersonal violence, ethical considerations for suicide researchers, and current knowledge on survivors of suicide.

The most comprehensive handbook on suicide and self-injury to date, this volume is a must-read text for graduate students, fellows, academic and research psychologists, and other researchers working in the brain and behavioral sciences.

自杀是一种令人困惑的人类行为，它仍然是全世界死亡的主要原因之一，每年造成的死亡人数比所有战争、种族灭绝和凶杀的总和还要多。尽管几千年来，自杀和其他形式的自我伤害一直让学者和临床医生感到困惑，但在过去的几十年里，我们对这些行为的理解发生了重大飞跃。

本书全面总结了我们对自杀和自残的理解以及我们预测和预防自杀的能力方面最重要和最令人兴奋的进展。这本手册由该领域的知名人士组成，涵盖了整个生命周期内自杀和自残的全部主题，包括不同自残行为的分类、流行病学、评估技术和干预。各章节探讨了我们社会中围绕自杀的相关问题，包括协助自杀和安乐死、自杀恐怖主义、自杀行为和人际暴力之间的重叠、自杀研究者的伦理考虑以及当前对自杀幸存者的认识。

本书是迄今为止最全面的自杀和自残手册，是研究生、研究员、学术和研究心理学家以及其他从事大脑和行为科学的研究人员必读的文本。