Editor's Preface 9
Editor's Introduction 13
Preface 35
Introduction 41
Book One:Extra-Social Factors 57
1 Suicide and Psychopathic States 57
2 Suicide and Normal Psychological States—Race,Heredity 82
3 Suicide and Cosmic Factors 104
4 Imitation 123
Book Two:Social Causes and Social Types 145
1 How to Determine Social Causes and Social Types 145
2 Egoistic Suicide 152
3 Egoistic Suicide(continued) 171
4 Altruistic Suicide 217
5 Anomic Suicide 241
6 Individual Forms of the Different Types of Suicide 277
Book Three:General Nature of Suicide as a Social Phenomenon 297
1 The Social Element of Suicide 297
2 Relations of Suicide with Other Social Phenomena 326
3 Practical Consequences 361
Appendices 393
Detailed Table of Contents 399