Description: Why is it so hard to investigate taboo topics? A myriad of forces shape and fashion human action, reaction, thought, and feeling, and these are not always well understood
Brief description:
Norman L. Farberow is one of the founders of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center. His books include The Psychology of Suicide and Endangered Hope: Experience in Psychiatric Aftercare Facilities.
Review Quotes: -The volume grew out of a 1961 American Psychological Association Symposium devoted to problems of research in emotion-laden areas. . . . [T]he volume is designed to indicate the feasibility of research in emotion-laden areas, to illustrate methods and procedures already in use, to stimulate the interests of professional researchers and to point out challenging areas that await investigation by yet-to-be-devised techniques. . . . [I]t reveals a number of the recurring problems that the contributors encountered in carrying out their work and interests.-
--Stanton Wheeler, American Sociological Review