Gathering evidence from such diverse sources as a sleep laboratory and a night on a mountain, an exploration of the fragile borderline between night and day provides understanding of the language of dreams and how dreams affect our waking selves.

This book explores suicide as it has never been described before. It is a deep compassionate insight into the realm of self-destruction from a personal, literary, and existential point of view. The author dispels the preconception that suicide is either a terrifying aberration or something to be ignored altogether. He documents and explores historically man's changing attitudes toward suicide: from the various primitive societies, the Greek and Roman...