General Guides ... for Suicide Survivors

	After Suicide: A Ray of Hope for Those Left Behind E. Betsy Ross and Joseph Richman.   Beginning with her own story of coping with her husband's suicide, Eleanora Betsy Ross takes the reader beyond the silence and shame often associated with suicide.  By examining the dynamics of after-suicide bereavement and using dozens of real-life case histories, After Suicide offers hope for the survivors and helps them maintain their sanity and poise during this most difficult time. Backed by years of research and the author's extensive work with survivors and support groups, this book is a valuable guide to coping with a suicide for both survivors and those who work with them.
	After Suicide: Help for the Bereaved Dr. Sheila Clark.  This book provides practical, commonsense and careful guidelines to help people find their way through this time. This book would be of great value to general practitioners and all those who may be involved in providing support and care for bereaved people following a suicide.
	Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One Ann Smolin and John Guinan. Survivors report that this book does an excellent job of describing the different emotions a survivor is forced to cope with and helping them in their grief journey. Through the use of personal accounts, the authors help the reader to address their guilt and see that they will eventually heal, knowing that their loved will never end.
	Silent Grief: Living in the Wake of Suicide Christopher Lukas and Henry M. Seiden.  In this book, a survivor and a clinical psychologist show how the emotional aftermath of suicide differs from that of normal bereavement.  Survivors have reported that this book has been nurturing and supportive during some of the hardest times. “It is like a friend who holds your hand and lets you know that it is always there, and you are not alone.”
	Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss Michael F. Myers and Carla Fine.  In this book, Miichael F. Myers, MD, a leading psychiatrist, and Carla Fine, author of  No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One, combine their perspectives as a physician and a survivor to offer compassionate and practical advice to anyone affected by suicide. The book is described as:  "a step-by-step manual for living through the profound chaos that suicide leaves in its wake."
	Aftershock: Help, Hope, and Healing in the Wake of Suicide Arrington Cox , Candy David, David Cox and Candy Arrington . David Cox is a Christian Counselor who  uses the analogy of an earthquake when describing the effect of a suicide.  Like an earthquake, suicide leaves immediate devastation; its damaging effects are strongest at the "epicenter," the family; and aftershocks continue to be felt. The aftershocks of suicide, the authors say, are isolation, anger, guilt, rejection, betrayal, grief, and loss. AFTERSHOCK explains how to deal with each of these emotions.
	After Suicide John H. Hewett.   A helpful book with a Christian orientation. This book addresses every aspect of the aftermath of a suicide and provides survivors with information they desperately need to cope with this devastating loss. It walks you gently from the nightmarish first few months through the one-year anniversary. This book was written to help Christians move through the pain without moving away from God.