Prologue : fifty-eight years / Edwin S. Shneidman
pt. 1. A symposium on suicide. Mortality and death / Jacques Choron
Suicide prevention / Louis I. Dublin
An individual act / Paul Friedman
Suicide and education / Robert J. Havighurst
Expression and punishment / Karl Menninger
A matter of communication / Erwin Stengel
A complex process / Lawrence Kubie
Discussion : a question of research
pt. 2. Suicide and the will. The phenomenology of suicide / Leslie H. Farber
The absurd in suicide / Jack D. Douglas
Suicide and immortality / David Bakan
The invitation to die / Sidney M. Jourard.