Book Review-Comprehending Suicide: Landmarks in 20th Century Suicidology, by E S Shneidman

The reviewer describes this book as “a review of selected articles or textbook chapters written during the past century.” He notes a lack of specific criteria for why the selected works have been included in this text. He finds that much of the book is devoted to writers who view suicide from the psychological, personal, & philosophical perspective, while discussion of data-oriented or biological studies is both limited & outdated.