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Suicide Prevention Education Alliance credits SAVE.org for a portion of this Reading List.

Depression & Other Brain Illnesses

Adults:

  • Understanding Depression - A Complete Guide to Its Diagnosis & Treatment by Donald F. Klein, M.D. & Paul H. Wender, M.D.
  • Questions & Answers About Depression and Its Treatment by Ivan K. Goldberg, M.D.
  • Overcoming Depression by Demitri Papolos, M.D. & Janice Papolos
  • The Broken Brain By Nancy Andreasen, M.D.
  • You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way by Colette Dowling
  • On the Edge of Darkness by Kathy Cronkite
  • Triumph Over Fear By Jerilynn Ross
  • Surviving Schizophrenia by E. Fuller Torrey, M.D
  • Essential Guide to Psychiatric Drugs by Jack M. Gorman, M.D.
  • Undoing Depression - What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You by Richard O'Connor, Ph.D.
  • Choosing To Live - How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy by Thomas E. Ellis, Psy.D. & Cory F. Newman, Ph.D.
  • Change Your Brain, Change Your Life by Daniel G. Amen, M.D.
  • When Going Through Helll. Don't Stop! by Douglas Bloch

Children & Adolescents:

  • No One Saw My Pain - Why Teens Kill Themselves by Andrew Slaby, M.D. & Lili Frank Garfinkel
  • Helping Your Depressed Teenager - A Guide for Parents & Caregivers
    by Gerald D. Oster, Ph.D. & Sarah S. Montgomery, MSW
  • Helping Your Depressed Child - A Reassuring Guide to the Causes & Treatments of Childhood & Adolescent Depression by Lawrence L. Kearns, M.D.
  • It's Nobody's Fault - New Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents
    by Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D.
  • Depression in the Young - What We Can Do to Help Them by Trudy Carlson
  • Sad Days, Glad Days by DeWitt Hamilton (a storybook for children about adult depression)
  • When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens by Bev Cobain
  • Depression - Challenge the Beast Within Yourself and Win by Cait Irwin

Suicide

  • Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Suicide: Survivors - A Guide for Those Left Behind by Adina Wrobleski
  • Suicide: Why? 85 Questions and Answers by Adina Wrobleski
  • Suicide: The Forever Decision - For Those Thinking About Suicide, and For Those Who Know, Love, or Counsel Them by Paul G. Quinnett
  • Suicide: Intervention & Therapy - Undoing the Forever Decision by Paul G. Quinnett
  • Preventing Youth Suicide - A Handbook for Educators & Human Service Professionals by Marcia L. McEvoy and Alan W. McEvoy
  • Child Survivors of Suicide: A Guidebook for Those Who Care for Them
    by Rebecca Parkin with Karen Dunne-Maxim
  • Suicide Survivors' Handbook by Trudy Carlson
  • The Tender Land: A Family Love Story by Kathleen Finneran
  • After Suicide by John Hewitt
  • Why Suicide? by Eric Marcus
  • No One Saw My Pain - Why Teens Kill Themselves by Andrew Slaby, M.D. & Lili Frank Garfinkel
  • Bart Speaks Out - Breaking the Silence on Suicide; an interactive storybook/workbook for children by Linda Goldman, M.S.
  • When Nothing Matters Anymore: A Survival Guide for Depressed Teens by Bev Cobain
  • Choosing To Live - How to Defeat Suicide Through Cognitive Therapy
    by Thomas E. Ellis, Psy.D. & Cory F. Newman, Ph.D.
  • Suicide of a Child by Adina Wrobleski

Autobiographies

  • An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison
  • Darkness Visible - A Memoir of Madness by William Styron
  • The Beast - A Reckoning with Depression by Tracy Thompson
  • A Brilliant Madness by Patty Duke
  • Conquering the Beast Within by Cait Irwin

Grief After Suicide

  • Suicide: Survivors - A Guide for Those Left Behind by Adina Wrobleski
  • Child Survivors of Suicide: A Guidebook for Those Who Care for Them by Rebecca Parkin with Karen Dunne-Maxim
  • Suicide Survivors' Handbook by Trudy Carlson
  • After Suicide: A Unique Grief Process by Elenor "Betsy" Ross
  • After Suicide by John Hewit
  • After a Suicide: Young People Speak Up by Susan Kuklon
  • Tragedy to Triumph by Reuel Nygaard
  • A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
  • My Son, My Son by Iris Bolton
  • Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One by Ann Smolin, C.S.W. and
    John Guinan, Ph.D.
  • The Grieving Child: A Parent's Guide by Helen Fitzgerald
  • When Dinosaurs Die - A Guide to Understanding Death (a storybook for children) by Laurie Krasny Brown & Marc Brown
  • Helping Children Grieve by Theresa Huntley
  • Talking about Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child by
    Earl A. Grollman
  • The Suicide of My Son - A Story of Childhood Depression
    by Trudy Carlson
  • Bart Speaks Out - Breaking the Silence on Suicide; an interactive storybook/workbook for children by Linda Goldman, M.S.
  • But I Didn't Say Goodbye by Barbara Rubel
  • Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide by Christopher Lukas
  • Suicide Survivors' Handbook: A Guide for the Bereaved and Those Who Wish to Help Them by Trudy Carlson

In most cases, the depression that so often precedes suicide is both recognizable and treatable.

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