"This book explains why suicide can be alluring to a person aiming to stop his or her traumatic pain, whether its source is bullying, sexual assault, war combat, or other PTSD-invoking events, and details approaches that can prevent suicide"--Provided by publisher.

Who is attracted by the allure of suicide? --Suicide is complicated -- The pioneer of suicidology and what he found -- Suicide among minorities -- The most beautiful alluring demon I have ever known -- -- Dreams, nightmares, and suicide -- Mental illness and suicide -- Teenage suicides -- Physician-assisted suicide -- Daryl Paulson's story -- Hard-earned insights from combat experience -- The parking lost suicides -- An integrative treatment of PTSD -- Two cases of sexual assault -- Sexual assault can lead to suicide -- Sexual assault in churches and faith groups -- Sexual assault in the military -- How Bruno was bullied to death -- Bullying and the vulnerable -- Bullies, victims, and bystanders -- Preventing bullying -- The three dangers -- Treating depression -- Deconstructing anxiety : a new way of dealing with suicidality -- Evaluating treatments for PTSD -- Suicide on the land : the farmer's dilemma -- Spirit sickness and soul loss -- Suicide among Indigenous Peoples -- Children, the elderly, and the sleep-deprived -- Two views of suicide from evolutionary psychology -- Suicide as a public health issues -- The archetypes of suicide -- Why mythology is personal -- The psychophysiology of suicide -- The rational emotive approach to suicidal thoughts -- Beyond the personal self : transpersonal models -- Systems approaches to understanding suicide -- Preventing suicide -- REBT and suicide prevention -- Resilience training and suicide prevention : did it work? -- Skills for self-regulation -- Building a better teenage brain -- Preventing suicide behind bars -- Spirituality as a path away from suicide -- Achieving self-empowerment -- Deal with PTSD nightmares first -- Nightmare dream revision and lucid dreaming -- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing -- Narrative exposure therapy -- Time perspective therapy -- How TPT saved Jamie from PTSD -- Nature's gift -- Psychedelics old and new -- Vine of the spirits -- Turning the Tide.