Thomas Joiner is een vooraanstaand Amerikaans psycholoog en een toonaangevende autoriteit op het complexe gebied van zelfmoord. Zijn onderzoek duikt in de psychologische en neurobiologische grondslagen van stemmingsstoornissen, suïcidale gedachten en gerelateerde aandoeningen. Joiners werk is erop gericht de ingewikkelde factoren te ontrafelen die bijdragen aan suïcidaal gedrag, op zoek naar inzichten die preventiestrategieën kunnen informeren.
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.