Thomas Joiner è uno psicologo americano di spicco e un'autorità leader nel complesso campo del suicidio. La sua ricerca approfondisce le basi psicologiche e neurobiologiche dei disturbi dell'umore, dell'ideazione suicidaria e delle condizioni correlate. Il lavoro di Joiner mira a svelare gli intricati fattori che contribuiscono al comportamento suicidario, cercando intuizioni che possano informare le strategie di prevenzione.
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.