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An examination of how suicide prevention efforts largely fail due to the mistaken assumption that greater mental health awareness is the key to saving lives. Rethinking Suicide is a critical examination of what we think we know about suicide, with particular focus on the assumed role of mental illness. Craig J. Bryan, a leading expert on suicide prevention, argues that most prevention efforts have failed because they disproportionately emphasize mental health-focused solutions such as access to treatment and crisis services. Instead of classifying suicide as a mental health issue, careful analysis of research findings suggest it should instead be seen as a highly complex problem with many risk factors--from personal decision-making styles, to the availability of lethal means, to financial uncertainty. As such suicide rates will not be curtailed by conventional solution-oriented thinking; rather, we need process-based thinking that may, in some cases, defy or contradict many of our long-held assumptions about suicide. Rethinking Suicide interweaves the author's firsthand experiences with explanations of scientific findings to reveal the limitations of widely-used practices and to introduce new perspectives that may trigger a paradigm shift in how we understand and prevent suicide.

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Craig J. Bryan is a board-certified clinical psychologist and the Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) professor of psychiatry and behavioral health at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. His research on suicide has led to the development and refinement of interventions that significantly reduce suicidal behaviors, and has been featured in major media outlets including Scientific American, CNN, Fox News, NPR, USA Today, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Dr. Bryan has published hundreds of scientific articles and multiple books, and has received numerous awards and recognitions for this work. Mark Torres is a professional actor and director, based out of New York City. His most recent film and TV credits include FBI: Most Wanted on CBS, Dexter on Showtime, Dr. Death on Peacock, Law & Order: Organized Crime and Manifest on NBC, Designated Survivor on Netflix, and several films on the Lifetime Movie Network. Mark recently played Polonius in the virtual reality film Hamlet: 360, which was produced by Commonwealth Shakespeare, Sensorium Productions, and Google. Mark served as producing artistic director for thirteen years at Penobscot Theatre/Maine Shakespeare Festival in Bangor, Maine, where he also served on the Maine Arts Commission. Prior to working in Maine, he was artistic director of Moving Target Theatre in Dallas. Mark was a member of the original Broadway cast of the five-time Tony Award winner Amadeus with Ian McKellen and Tim Curry. As a director, stage manager, and/or actor, Mark has worked on Broadway and at such regional theaters as Trinity Repertory in Providence, Rhode Island, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Dallas Theater Center, Dallas Shakespeare Festival, The Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, The Plaza Theatre in Dallas, Center Stage in Baltimore, Melody Top Theatre in Milwaukee, Ocean State Theatre, The Utah Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shakespeare on the Sound, Music Theatre of Connecticut, The Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and The Theatre at Monmouth. Mark is also a magna cum laude graduate of the architecture program at the University of Maine at Augusta.

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