Thomas Joiner est un psychologue américain de renom et une autorité reconnue dans le domaine complexe du suicide. Ses recherches explorent les bases psychologiques et neurobiologiques des troubles de l'humeur, des idées suicidaires et des conditions connexes. Le travail de Joiner vise à démêler les facteurs complexes qui contribuent au comportement suicidaire, en cherchant des perspectives susceptibles d'éclairer les stratégies de prévention.
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.