Laura M. Prager, MD, is assistant professor of psychiatry (child psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School and director of the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service at Massachusetts General Hospital.Abigail L. Donovan, MD, is assistant psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Safe to Return to School?2. Ghostly Drawings3. A Wounded Son4. Do You See What I See?5. Cornered and Contaminated6. The Whirling Dervish7. The Astronomer8. It's Just a Cold9. Children Come with Parents10. Little Bear11. "We Ain't No Delinquents, We're Misunderstood"12. Suicide by Security BlanketAfterwordGlossaryIndex

These tales are riveting. In the book's introduction, Praeger acknowledges a fascination with the children's stories. Clearly she understands how to listen carefully and, more important here, portray a character in a few well-chosen phrases. Readers hear, see and smell the tiny interview rooms where psychiatry residents speak to their patients. . . . insightful and disturbing. . . . Putting a human face on a problem can help people comprehend it, and ideally motivate them to act. Suicide by Security Blanket presents a particularly disturbing set of faces with an especially powerful claim to attention. May it yield the kind of action its subjects so urgently require.

Laura M. Prager, MD, is assistant professor of psychiatry (child psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School and director of the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service at Massachusetts General Hospital.Abigail L. Donovan, MD, is assistant psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Safe to Return to School?2. Ghostly Drawings3. A Wounded Son4. Do You See What I See?5. Cornered and Contaminated6. The Whirling Dervish7. The Astronomer8. It's Just a Cold9. Children Come with Parents10. Little Bear11. "We Ain't No Delinquents, We're Misunderstood"12. Suicide by Security BlanketAfterwordGlossaryIndex

These tales are riveting. In the book's introduction, Praeger acknowledges a fascination with the children's stories. Clearly she understands how to listen carefully and, more important here, portray a character in a few well-chosen phrases. Readers hear, see and smell the tiny interview rooms where psychiatry residents speak to their patients. . . . insightful and disturbing. . . . Putting a human face on a problem can help people comprehend it, and ideally motivate them to act. Suicide by Security Blanket presents a particularly disturbing set of faces with an especially powerful claim to attention. May it yield the kind of action its subjects so urgently require.

Laura M. Prager, MD, is assistant professor of psychiatry (child psychiatry) at Harvard Medical School and director of the Child Psychiatry Emergency Service at Massachusetts General Hospital.Abigail L. Donovan, MD, is assistant psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Safe to Return to School?2. Ghostly Drawings3. A Wounded Son4. Do You See What I See?5. Cornered and Contaminated6. The Whirling Dervish7. The Astronomer8. It's Just a Cold9. Children Come with Parents10. Little Bear11. "We Ain't No Delinquents, We're Misunderstood"12. Suicide by Security BlanketAfterwordGlossaryIndex

These tales are riveting. In the book's introduction, Praeger acknowledges a fascination with the children's stories. Clearly she understands how to listen carefully and, more important here, portray a character in a few well-chosen phrases. Readers hear, see and smell the tiny interview rooms where psychiatry residents speak to their patients. . . . insightful and disturbing. . . . Putting a human face on a problem can help people comprehend it, and ideally motivate them to act. Suicide by Security Blanket presents a particularly disturbing set of faces with an especially powerful claim to attention. May it yield the kind of action its subjects so urgently require.