Recommended Reading

Books on Suicidology:

• Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Reidfield Jamison
• Why People Die by Suicide by Thomas Joiner
• On Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Emile Durkheim
• Autopsy of a Suicidal Mind by Edwin Shneidman
• The Suicidal Mind by Edwin Shneidman
• The Savage God: A Study in Suicide by A. Alvarez

Books on Depression:

• The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
• Depression: Causes and Treatments by Aaron T. Beck, MD & Brad A. Alford, Ph.D.

Articles:

Being Suicidal: What it Feels like to Want to Kill Yourself by Jesse Bering

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/being-suicidal-what-it-feels-like-to-want-to-kill-yourself/

Suicide as Escape from Self by Roy Baumeister