Thomas Joiner is a distinguished American psychologist and a leading authority on the complex subject of suicide. His research delves into the psychological and neurobiological underpinnings of mood disorders, suicidal ideation, and related conditions. Joiner's work aims to unravel the intricate factors contributing to suicidal behavior, seeking insights that can inform prevention strategies.
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.