Lisa Lieberman teaches modern European cultural and intellectual history at Dickinson College. Her work, both fiction and nonfiction, has appeared in various journals, and she wrote the "Suicide" entry in the Oxford Companion to the Body. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England.
Wonderfully lucid and nervy meditation...provides an illuminating
sketch of suicide over the
centuries...enlightening...absorbing.
*The Philadelphia Inquirer*
An intellectually courageous book, Lieberman's arguments challenge
conventional views on suicide and deserve serious
consideration.
*Howard I. Kushner, Ph.D., Professor, Rollins School of Public
Health and Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory
University*
Intellectually rich meditation...engaging, erudite...provocative
and sometimes heartfelt arguments will make readers reexamine the
issue.
*Publishers Weekly*
In this pithy book Lisa Lieberman explores the underlying influence
that literature has had on individual human self-destruction
throughout history.
*Derek Humphry*
Slender and elegantly written.... The asperity of Lieberman's wit
is particularly welcome in this territory...Lieberman sets the bar
pretty high.
*Salon.Com*
Leaving You...asks provocative questions about how we in the 21st
century respond to suicidal violence.
*Death Studies*
Lieberman…is a spirited...writer…. Her attempt to restore...dignity
to "the so-called vistim" is...brave and important…
*New England Journal Of Medicine*
[Lieberman's] enterprise is a noble one: ...to disabuse us of the
notion that suicide is meaningless.
*Hampshire Gazette*
Lieberman offers a thought-provoking contrast to George Rosen’s
classic work on the history of suicide. Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
Offers a richly textured historical narrative. Displays a great
facility at synthesizing disparate sources...into a compelling
explanation…
*Metapsychology Online*
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