2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
American physician and Jungian analyst at Texas A&M who wrote The Tao of Jung — connecting Jungian psychology to Taoist philosophy — and who studied survivors of Golden Gate Bridge suicide attempts, using analytical psychology to understand the psychological transformation that near-death experiences can produce.
French sociologist who co-founded sociology as an academic discipline — writing Suicide (demonstrating that even the most individual act is shaped by social forces) and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (arguing that religion is society worshipping itself) — and who established the concept of anomie.