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We have medicalized #SuicidePrevention and focused on individuals instead of environment and social structures. Sociologist like @seth_abrutyn and @procAnna point out that sociologists have been fighting the good fight. Bookmark this Seth Abrutyn thread. It’s worth it.
1. How we could bridge divide and move forward towards better science of Suicidology https://twitter.com/seth_abrutyn/status/1353376623534346241
2. Revisiting Durkheim rejection of exposure and diffusion https://twitter.com/seth_abrutyn/status/1353373326882742274
3. More on diffusion and influence https://twitter.com/seth_abrutyn/status/1353373833260978179
4. More on cultural scripts and network effects https://twitter.com/seth_abrutyn/status/1353373915305832452
5. How Suicidology has mostly ignored socio-cultural factors https://twitter.com/seth_abrutyn/status/1353374227525627905
6. A nice review of cultural and economic factors in suicide https://twitter.com/seth_abrutyn/status/1353375655052808194
7. Important mentions of other work in these areas https://twitter.com/seth_abrutyn/status/1353376386631626753
Finally - this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t continue to study and improve on psychological understanding or individual intervention BUT if we are going to make a population level impact, we need to start viewing suicide as a socio-cultural phenomenon & stop pathologizing everything.
