Thomas Joiner es un distinguido psicólogo estadounidense y una autoridad líder en el complejo tema del suicidio. Su investigación profundiza en los fundamentos psicológicos y neurobiológicos de los trastornos del estado de ánimo, la ideación suicida y las condiciones relacionadas. El trabajo de Joiner tiene como objetivo desentrañar los intrincados factores que contribuyen al comportamiento suicida, buscando ideas que puedan informar las estrategias de prevención.
In the wake of a suicide, the most troubling questions are invariably the most difficult to answer: How could we have known? What could we have done? And always, unremittingly: why? Written by a clinical psychologist whose own life has been touched by suicide, this book offers an account of why some people choose to die.
Thomas Joiner's Mindlessness chronicles the promising rise of mindfulness and its perhaps inevitable degradation. Giving mindfulness its full due, both as a useful philosophical vantage point and as a means to address various life challenges, Joiner mercilessly charts how narcissism has intertwined with and co-opted the practice to create a Frankenstein's monster of cultural solipsism and self-importance.